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Haurongo: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance

Receiving the New Zealand Book Award

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Receiving the New Zealand Book Award

Sylvia Ashton-Warner shakes hands with Minister for the Arts Allan Highet, at the New Zealand Book Award ceremony in 1980. Ashton-Warner received the award for her autobiography, I passed this way.

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Dominion Post

Reference: 2 July 1980, p. 1

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Sue Middleton. 'Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33260/receiving-the-new-zealand-book-award (accessed 4 June 2026).