HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover

Winner 2013

	Designer Scott Crickett Title The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Publisher Auckland University Press Format 238 x 176mm, 1184pp, jacketed hardback, section sewn, uncoated jacket with matt varnish, printed five-colour, head and tail bands, two ribbons Judges' Comments Here’s an unusual concept: a cover made up of other covers. The title here is framed by strips taken from esteemed New Zealand books, including Coal Flat, The Rehearsal, The 10pm Question and Wulf . You can spend a long time exploring the subtleties of Scott Crickett’s design. Stare hard at the bottom left and you’ll see a Māori canoe that comes originally from a watercolour by Charles Heaphy, and above the canoe is a hilly West Coast landscape drawn by Colin McCahon.

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