Recipients
View recipients of the Pou Aronui Award.
Latest recipient
The 2021 Pou Aronui Award was presented to Professor Harry Ricketts, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prolific literary figures – writer, teacher, editor and promotor of local intellectual culture.
Previous recipients
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2020 |
Professor Rawinia Higgins, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, who has made esteemed and far-reaching advances in Māori language revitalisation. |
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2019 |
Professor Emeritus Roger Horrocks from the University of Auckland for his tireless work over five decades in New Zealand culture, in film, television, literature, and the visual arts. |
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2018 |
Claudia Orange for eminent and sustained service to the humanities-aronui as a scholar of the Treaty of Waitangi; as editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and as head of collections and research at Te Papa Tongarewa. |
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2017 |
Ngahuia te Awekotuku for her outstanding service to humanities-aronui over 40 years, showing an enduring commitment to indigenous culture and heritage. She is an acclaimed author of award-winning research and works of fiction and poetry, recognised arts curator and critic, and stalwart of Writer’s Festivals locally and overseas |
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2016 |
Not awarded. |
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2015 |
Margaret Mutu for her sustained contributions to indigenous rights and scholarship in New Zealand |
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2014 |
Lydia Wevers for her dedication to promoting New Zealand studies, literature and art |
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2013 |
Not awarded. |
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2012 |
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki for his outstanding contribution in the development of the humanities in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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2011 |
Jock Phillips for his combination of leadership and research has made an outstanding contribution to the role of scholarship and to the development of our understanding of ourselves as human beings in Aotearoa/New Zealand |
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2010 |
Not awarded. |
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2009 |
Brian Opie |
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2008 |
Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira |
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2007 |
Lloyd George Geering |
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2006 |
James Wharehuia Milroy |