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John Prins

John Prins' short stories have been published in Landfall Tauraka and Newsroom. He lives with his family in in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Pastoral Care is his first book.

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Pastoral Care

Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction - Best First Book. John Prins' debut short story collection Pastoral Care is the second title in the Landfall Tauraka Short Stories series, following Ockham shortlisted Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn. The nine stories centre on daily life in twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand,…
John Prins
August 29, 2025