Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 September 2019 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlist for the 2019 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
- An Unconventional Wife: The life of Julia Sorrell Arnold (Mary Hoban, Scribe)
- Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become (Lee Kofman, Affirm)
- Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir (Nadia Wheatley, Text)
- The Arsonist (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
- Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future (Alice Gorman, NewSouth)
- Steve Smith’s Men (Geoff Lemon, Hardie Grant).
The winners will be announced on 14 November at a breakfast event hosted by author Richard Glover. The winner will receive a cash prize of $20,000, while the authors of the shortlisted books each receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize of $1000.
The award, established by the Waverley Library in 2002, recognises the role of research in fiction and nonfiction. This year’s all-nonfiction shortlist was chosen from a longlist of 17 titles announced in August.
For more information about the award, visit the Waverley Library website.
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