Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha) is a New Zealand novelist and journalist from Waimangaroa on the West Coast.
Her debut novel Auē won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book of Fiction at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, as well as Best Crime Novel at the Ngaio Marsh Awards. In 2025, her second novel Kataraina was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
She also won the 2025 Sargeson Short Story Prize and has held the Robert Burns Fellowship. Manawatu is currently using the University of Canterbury's Ursula Bethell writer in residence to complete her third novel.
