Godwit Press is a

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publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its main non-fiction publishing arm in New Zealand. Godwit Press (frequently simply referred to as Godwit) has won several New Zealand book awards, as follows: ;

New Zealand Post Book Awards The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...

*1999 Illustrative Arts Award winner and NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction - ''100 New Zealand Craft Artists'' (

Helen Schamroth Helena Jeannette Schamroth (born 1945) is a New Zealand craft artist and author. Biography Schamroth was born in Kraków, Poland, just after World War II to two Jewish Holocaust survivors, but her milliner grandmother and shoemaker grandf ...

) *2000 Lifestyle Award winner - ''The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants'' (

Yvonne Cave Yvonne is a female given name. It is the feminine form of Yvon, which is derived from the French name Yves and Yvette. It is from the French word ''iv'', meaning "yew" (or tree). Since yew wood was used for bows, Ivo may have been an occupation ...

Valda Paddison Valda may refer to: People * Augusto Valda Vargas (born 1957), Bolivian politician and journalist * Valda Aveling (1920–2007), Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist * Valda Berzins, Australian business woman * Valda Cooper, America ...

) *2002 Poetry Award winner - ''Piggy-back Moon'' (

Hone Tuwhare Honing is a kind of metalworking. Hone may also refer to: * Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname * Hõne language, spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria * Hône Hône ( Valdôtain: (loca ...

) *2002 Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Award winner - ''The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting'' ( Lynnsay Rongokea &

John Dalley John Dalley (born 3 March 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American violinist. He was raised in a musical family. His father was an orchestra conductor, violinist, composer, instrumental teacher, and music educator. His mother, from Bloomington, ...

) *2003 Reference & Anthology Award winner - ''Spirit in a Strange Land: A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse'' (eds. Paul Morris,

Harry Ricketts Harry Ricketts (born 1950) is a poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets. Life Ricketts was bor ...

& Mike Grimshaw) *2005 Montana Medal for Non-Fiction and History Award winner - ''At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design'' (

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking * Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil ...

) *2009 NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction - ''Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand'' (

Chris Brickell Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Niger ...

) *2014 Illustrated Non-fiction Award winner - ''Coast: A New Zealand journey'' (

Bruce Ansley The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...

Jane Ussher Philippa Jane Ussher (born 1953) is one of New Zealand's foremost documentary and portrait photographers. She joined the ''New Zealand Listener'' in 1977 and was chief photographer for 29 years, leaving to take up a career as a freelance photogra ...

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