Books by Ron Palenski

Ron Palenski is one of New Zealand's most experienced and prolific sports writers. His books on rugby have sold many hundreds of thousands of copies over the past thirty years. As a journalist, he covered many rugby tours in New Zealand and overseas as well as Olympic and Commonwealth Games and much else besides. He has been judged Sports Journalist of the Year, Cricket Writer of the Year, Rugby Writer of the Year and Sports Columnist of the year, and in 1997 won the Sir Lance Cross Memorial Prize for his writing on the Olympics. In 2004 he was made a life member of the New Zealand Sports Journalists Assn and was given a SPARC Lifetime Award. He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours in 2002.