‘The Ambitions of Jane Franklin’ wins National Biography Award
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin by Alison Alexander (A&U) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW).The biography of Franklin, a...
‘The Two Frank Thrings’ wins National Biography Award
The Two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick (Monash University Publishing) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW). Fitzpatrick’s book, which tells...
National Biography Award 2013 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2013 National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Speechless: A Year in My...
‘The Many Worlds of R H Matthews’ wins National Biography Award
The Many Worlds of R H Matthews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas (A&U) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented on 14 May at the...
National Biography Award worth $25,000 in 2012
The State Library of New South Wales has announced that the prize money for the National Biography Award will increase from $20,000 to $25,000 in 2012. Entries for the 2012...
‘Grand Obsessions’ wins 2011 National Biography Award
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern) by Alasdair McGregor has won this year's $20,000 National Biography Award, announced Monday 16 May...
‘Grand Obsessions’ wins 2011 National Biography Award
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern) by Alasdair McGregor has won this year's $20,000 National Biography Award, announced Monday 16 May...
2011 National Biography Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Alan ‘The Red Fox' Reid: Pressman Par Excellence (Ross Fitzgerald & Stephen Holt, UNSW Press)Grand Obsessions:...
‘Manning Clark: A Life’ wins National Biography Award
Manning Clark: A Life (Allen & Unwin) by Brian Matthews has won the $20,000 National Biography Award, Australia's richest prize for biographical writing and memoir, announced Monday 17 May at...
National Biography Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's $20,000 National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a record 62 entries, are: Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia (David Day,...
National Biography Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's $20,000 National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a record 62 entries, are: Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia (David Day,...
‘I am Melba’ wins National Biography Award
The winner of the 2009 National Biography Award, worth $20,000, is Ann Blainey for I Am Melba (Black Inc.) ‘Ann Blainey has had to peel away layers of the cult...
National Biography Award 2009 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the National Biography Award 2009, worth $20,000, has been announced. From a record 58 entries in biographical and memoir writing, six were chosen:I am Melba (Ann Blainey,...