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National Biography Award 2013 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 July 2013   Books+Publishing
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The shortlist for the 2013 National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

  • Speechless: A Year in My Father’s Business (James Button, MUP)
  • Montebello: A Memoir (Robert Drewe, Hamish Hamilton)
  • The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University Publishing)
  • Gough Whitlam: His Time (Jenny Hocking, MUP)
  • Reaching One Thousand (Rachel Robertson, Black Inc.).

 

The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 5 August at the SLNSW to mark the beginning of the library’s Biography Week—a public events program dedicated to biography, autobiography and memoir. The winner of the award will receive a cash prize of $25,000 and each shortlisted author will receive $1000.

The National Biography Award is Australia’s richest prize for biographical writing and memoir. In 2012, the award was presented to The Many Worlds of R H Matthews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas (A&U).

For more information about the award, visit the SLNSW website here.

 

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