Nib Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

• An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family (Alison Bashford, Allen Lane)
• Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
• Emperors in Lilliput (Jim Davidson, Miegunyah)
• The Age of Seeds (Fiona McMillan-Webster, Thames & Hudson)
• Life So Full of Promise: Further biographies of Australia’s lost generation (Ross McMullin, Scribe)
• Shirley Hazzard: A writing life (Brigitta Olubas, Virago).

The Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, is presented by Sydney’s Waverley Council. The award celebrates ‘the most compelling research-based Australian literature and is awarded to nominated published works of any genre that best fulfil the criteria of high literary merit, quality of research, readability and value to the community’.

This year’s judging panel included poet Jamie Grant, author Katerina Cosgrove and publisher Julia Carlomagno.

Each of the six finalists receive $1500. Winners of the Nib People’s Choice Prize ($4000) and the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($40,000) will be announced 9 November. The Moran family recently doubled the prize money of the award.

For more information, see the Waverley Council website.

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