Geoff Chapple and Margaret Pointer win the 2013 CLNZ Writers’ Awards. Well known writers Geoff Chapple of Devonport and Margaret Pointer of Wellington were presented the 2013 Awards plus $35,000 each at a ceremony held at the Auckland Town Hall
Well known writers Geoff Chapple of Devonport and Margaret Pointer of Wellington were presented the 2013 Awards plus $35,000 each at a ceremony held at the Auckland Town Hall.
Geoff Chapple was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to tramping, tourism and literature in the 2012 and is committed to continuing to write about things he feels deserve notice. Once published, this book will take readers on a literary journey along the Te Araroa trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Readers will be encouraged readers to look closely at the ground that we walk on. Described as a high end travel book, Terrain will include travel stories from around New Zealand supported by interesting facts on the geological make up of our country.
The selection panel commented that Geoff’s book promises to be “fascinating for the lay reader – part travel book and part introduction to NZ geology. Information about landforms interspersed with humour and written with a style that could only enthuse the reader. This book fills a ‘gap’ in New Zealand non-fiction and is a book that will be dateless.”