{"id":199017,"date":"2025-10-09T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:09:09","slug":"cleary-wins-au-nz-fiction-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199017\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleary wins A&#038;U NZ Fiction Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday, 9 October 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allen &amp; Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand (A&amp;U NZ) has announced Tauranga writer Anne Cleary as the winner of the 2025 Fiction Prize for her entry Apple Man.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publisher, Apple Man is an \u2018engaging psychological thriller about a young boy who goes missing while on a fishing trip with his father\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Chosen from over 130 manuscripts, Cleary\u2019s entry stood out for \u2018the quality of its writing, its sympathetic, well-drawn characters and flawless pacing\u2019, said judges.<\/p>\n<p>Cleary receives a publishing contract and an advance against royalties of $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;U NZ plans to publish Apple Man in mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=awards-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 9 October 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Allen &amp; Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand (A&amp;U NZ) has announced Tauranga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[77,64,63,11192,11195,11189,3952,457,11194,3331,134,11191,1736,11193,11190],"class_list":["post-199017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}