Bernard Beckett is one of New Zealand’s most outstanding writers, and has won many awards in the course of his career. Genesis is his eighth novel, and originated during a year Beckett spent studying DNA at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Evolution on a Royal Society Fellowship. Genesis won the 2007 Esther Glen Award and the Young Adult Fiction Category at the 2007 NZ Post Book Awards.
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Text also publishes books for young adults and younger readers. We run an annual competition for the best unpublished manuscript, The Text Prize.
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