A book that's been turned into a movie, White Lies, was named one of five winners at Thursday night's fifth annual Maori Book Awards, held in Wellington.
The chair of the three member judging panel and a senior Massey University lecturer says the awards had been created as a result of other major book awards consistently failing to acknowledge Maori authors.
The winner of the fiction section was White Lies: Tuakiri Huna by Dana Rotberg and Witi Ihimaera. It's a story about a Maori medicine woman who's asked to keep a secret.
The rest of the winners here.