Steve Braunias
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Steve Braunias is an award-winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor.
He has won 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas (Print) Media http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0605/S00059.htm, and is three-time winner of the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award (2002, 2010, 2011). He has also won awards as a sports writer, crime writer, food writer, and humourist.
Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading Roy of the Rovers
, a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters' names.
He has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listener and senior writer at the Sunday Star-Times. In 2010 he was Editor in Residence at Wintec in Hamilton.
He is the author of five books, has written for satirical TV series Eating Media Lunch and Unauthorised History of New Zealand, and is currently working on New Zealand : A Biography, an affectionate travel book about the real New Zealand and New Zealanders, to be published in 2011 by Awa Press.
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He has won 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas (Print) Media http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0605/S00059.htm, and is three-time winner of the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award (2002, 2010, 2011). He has also won awards as a sports writer, crime writer, food writer, and humourist.
Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading Roy of the Rovers
Roy of the Rovers
Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers...
, a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters' names.
He has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listener and senior writer at the Sunday Star-Times. In 2010 he was Editor in Residence at Wintec in Hamilton.
He is the author of five books, has written for satirical TV series Eating Media Lunch and Unauthorised History of New Zealand, and is currently working on New Zealand : A Biography, an affectionate travel book about the real New Zealand and New Zealanders, to be published in 2011 by Awa Press.
Non-fiction books
- Smoking in Antarctica (2010, Awa Press)
- Fish of the Week (2008, Awa Press)
- Roosters I Have Known (2008, Awa Press)
- How to Watch a Bird (2007, Awa Press)
- Fool's Paradise (won the 2002 New Zealand Society of Authors' E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book AwardsMontana New Zealand Book AwardsThe New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
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Television Writing
The Unauthorised History of New Zealandhttp://lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1293