Atkinson wins 2015 CHASS Australia Book Prize

Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (NewSouth) has won the 2015 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Book Prize.

The prize, worth $3500, is presented annually to an Australian writer whose nonfiction book published in 2014 ‘contributed most to Australian cultural and intellectual life’.

Atkinson’s book has won multiple awards in the past year, including the NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize, the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Ernest Scott Prize (joint winner).

The Australia Book Prize is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program, which aims to draw international attention to Australia’s achievements in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Also shortlisted for the prize were Carolyn Holbrook’s ANZAC: The Unauthorised Biography (NewSouth) and Tim Low’s Where Song Began (Viking).

For more information about the CHASS Australian Prizes program, click here.

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