{"id":423518,"date":"2026-05-12T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:30:15","slug":"dame-jacinda-ardern-skips-ockham-book-awards-for-australia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423518\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Jacinda Ardern skips Ockham book awards for Australia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Braunias notes that Ardern\u2019s memoir was longlisted for the award on January 29, while the ceremony date had been public since August last year.<\/p>\n

\"AA Different Kind of Power: A Memoir, by Dame Jacinda Ardern, was released in June last year. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

The Ockham awards declined to make comment when approached by the Herald.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old former Prime Minister moved to Sydney with her family<\/a> earlier in the year, telling the Sydney Morning Herald she valued the proximity to her home country.<\/p>\n

She was scheduled to promote A Different Kind of Power at the Melbourne Writers Festival over the weekend before returning to New Zealand for the Auckland Writers Festival on Sunday.<\/p>\n

There, Ardern will share the stage with Noelle McCarthy to discuss her memoir and time in politics.<\/p>\n

Last year, Ng\u0101huia Te Awek\u014dtuku (Te Arawa, T\u016bhoe, Ng\u0101puhi, Waikato) took home the non-fiction award for her memoir Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery.<\/p>\n

Ardern faces off against three other finalists for the 2026 prize, Tina Makeriti\u2019s This Compulsion in Us, Peta Carey\u2019s The Hollows Boys: A Story of Three Brothers & the Fiordland Deer Recovery Era and Naomi Arnold\u2019s Northbound: Four Seasons of Solitude on Te Araroa.<\/p>\n

The winner will be announced tomorrow night at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre in Auckland\u2019s Aotea Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braunias notes that Ardern\u2019s memoir was longlisted for the award on January 29, while the ceremony date had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3017,48785,13176,85,10779,2108,2947,2082,13175,6501,111,43,139,69,217309,36176,50358,17895,208,1533,80],"class_list":["post-423518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ahead","tag-appearances","tag-ardern","tag-australia","tag-awards","tag-book","tag-dame","tag-for","tag-jacinda","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ockham","tag-promotional","tag-scheduled","tag-skips","tag-tour","tag-will","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}