Film-maker, novelist and essayist Peter Wells and writer and curator Damian Skinner have won $35,000 at the Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) Writers' Awards.
Wells, from Napier, intends to complete his work The Hungry Heart: The Enquiring Mind, a biography of Christian missionary William Colenso.
Gisborne writer Skinner received the award for his project The Hands of Ancestors: Customary Maori Carvers in the 20th Century.
Writers' awards
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