‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced.
The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are:
Winner
- Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of rock art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria (li-Yanyuwa li-Wirdiwalangu [Yanyuwa Elders], Liam M Brady, John Bradley & Amanda Kearney, Sydney University Press)
Highly commended
- Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands (Ngarukuruwala Women’s Group, with Genevieve Campbell, Hardie Grant Explore with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation)
- Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up (Mavis Kerinaiua & Laura Rademaker, NewSouth)
Finalists
- Connecting the North: From the diaries of the overland telegraph expeditioners (Andrew Crouch, self-published)
- Darwin: Survival of a city, the 1890s (Derek Pugh, self-published)
- Our Voices from the Heart (Megan Davis & Patricia Anderson, HarperCollins).
The winner receives $1000. The Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award is an annual award for ‘the most significant historical book’ about the Northern Territory published in the previous 12 months.
Last year’s winner was Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP).
This year’s winning books were announced by Library & Archives NT (LANT) on its Facebook page, and a list of winners since 2004 can be found on its website.
LANT is currently offering a grant of up to $7000 to support original research about NT history via its history grants program, which ‘aims to support original research on NT history and broaden community understanding of and engagement with LANT’s collections’.
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