After a 12-month hiatus, the country's premier book awards will return in 2016 with a new structure, a new judging process and an annual fiction prize of $50,000.
The New Zealand Book Awards winners will be announced at an event during the country's largest literary gathering - the Auckland Writers Festival - in May 2016.
Do you have a favourite novel by a New Zealand writer? Let us know what it is (and try not to be too influenced by the selection of book covers shown above).
What is your favourite NZ novel? Here is the latest selection of Your Views: