Nib Literary Award 2024 finalists announced
The finalists for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, have been announced.
Shortlisted titles for the award are:
- Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, A&U)
- Book of Life (Deborah Conway, A&U)
- Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)
- Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
- Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia (Dave Witty, Monash University Publishing).
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 literature published annually’, under the criteria of literary merit, quality research, readability, and value to the community. Shortlisted authors all receive the $1500 Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize.
Judges selected the shortlisted titles from a longlist announced in August, after assessing 175 submissions. This year’s judging panel included poet Jamie Grant, author and publishing professional Angela Meyer and publisher Julia Carlomagno.
Said the judges of the shortlist: ‘We were impressed with the breadth and calibre of this year’s entries, which ranged across genres, forms and styles. The six chosen books cast a lens both global and intimate, exploring issues of gender, class, nation and family, and emphasising the importance of community.’
Last year’s winner was Alison Bashford for the book An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family (Allen Lane).
Voting for the Nib People’s Choice Prize, worth $4000, is open until 17 October.
Winners of the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award and the Nib People’s Choice Prize will be announced on 27 November.
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