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Steve Braunias (born New Zealand in June 1960 to an Austrian immigrant father and a New Zealand-born mother) is an award-winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He has won 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas Media Award (Print), and is three-time winner of the ''Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year'' Award (2002, 2010, 2011). He has also won awards as a sports writer, crime writer, food writer, and humourist. Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading ''Roy of the Rovers'', a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters' names. He has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listener and senior writer at the Sunday Star-Times. He is now a staff writer at Metro magazine, works one day a week as Editor in Residence at Wintec in Hamilton, and syndicates a weekly satirical diary to six Fairfax newspapers. He is the author of a number of books, and has written for satirical TV series ''Eating Media Lunch'' and ''The Unauthorised History of New Zealand''. The $35,000 Braunias received from the 2010 CLNZ Writers’ Award enabled him to work on Civilisation: 20 Places at the Edge of the World, an affectionate travel book about 20 small towns, published in November 2012 by Awa Press. ==Non-fiction books== *''Fool's Paradise'' - won the 2002 New Zealand Society of Authors' E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards *''How to Watch a Bird'' (2007), Awa Press *''Roosters I Have Known'' (2008), Awa Press *''Fish of the Week'' (2008), Awa Press *''Smoking in Antarctica'' (2010), Awa Press *''Civilisation: Twenty places on the Edge of the World'' (2012) *''Madmen: Inside the weirdest election campaign ever'' (2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Braunias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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