Career
He was a finalist again for the same award in 2011, 2012 and 2014. He is a former news editor for the Woman"s Day magazine, and is currently a senior writer at New Zealand Woman"s Weekly. His short film Home premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto.
Awarau has a degree in film and television from the University of Waikato, and a journalism degree from the Auckland University of Technology.
After leaving Waikato Uuniversity in 1998, Awarau worked in the New Zealand film industry for two years, working on films such as What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and The Price of Milk. The annual award was created by the South Taranaki District Council to commemorate Hawera’s most famous author, Ronald Hugh Morrieson.
