National Biography Award

Given by State Library of NSW Foundation

67 Works 4,025 Books 157 Reviews ½ 4.0
The National Biography Award was established in Australia in 1996 to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in these genres. The award vis mere is administered and presented by the State Library of New South Wales. vis mindre
Stages:
Alle, Shortlist (40), No Stage (27)
Years:
Alle, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (6), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (2), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (2), 2002 (1), 2000 (2), 1998 (1), 1996 (1)

Shortlist 40

VærkÅr
The Lotus Eaters af Emily Clements2021
One Bright Moon af Andrew Kwong2021
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse af Cassandra Pybus2021
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music af Archie Roach2021
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle af Margaret Simons2021
The Girls af Chloe Higgins2020
Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook af Jacqueline Kent2020
Idling in Green Places : A Life of Alec Chisholm af Russell McGregor2020
Things Nobody Knows But Me af Amra Pajalic2020
Hearing Maud : A Journey for a Voice af Jessica White2020
The wasp and the orchid : the remarkable life of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman af Danielle Clode2019
The Trauma Cleaner af Sarah Krasnostein2019
Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life af Rozanna Lilley2019
One Hundred Years of Dirt af Rick Morton2019
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir af Sofija Stefanovic2019
Songs of a War Boy af Deng Thiak Adut2018
Paul Keating : the big-picture leader af Troy Bramston2018
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work af Bernadette Brennan2018
Writing for Raksmey: A Story of Cambodia (Investigating Power) af Joan Healy2018
The Boy Behind the Curtain af Tim Winton2018
The Unknown Judith Wright af Georgina Arnott2017
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow af Suzanne Falkiner2017
Position doubtful : mapping landscapes and memories af Kim Mahood2017
Evatt: A Life af John Murphy2017
The Long Goodbye af P.J. Parker2017
Battarbee and Namatjira af Martin Edmond2016
Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam's Beijing Envoy af Stephen Fitzgerald2016
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather af Karen Lamb2016
Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent af Peter Rees2016
Reckoning: A Memoir af Magda Szubanski2016
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family af Gabrielle Carey2015
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power af Philip Dwyer2015
To begin to know : walking in the shadows of my father af David Leser2015
A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler af Helen O'Neill2015
The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir af Liam Pieper2015
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 af Tim Bonyhady2012
Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles af A. J. Brown2012
Sydney af Delia Falconer2012
How To Make Gravy: A to Z, A Mongrel Memoir af Paul Kelly2012
An eye for eternity : the life of Manning Clark af Mark McKenna2012

No Stage 27

VærkÅr
My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood af Ann-Marie Priest2023
Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears af Bernadette Brennan2022
Tiberius with a Telephone: the life and stories of William McMahon af Patrick Mullins2020
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison af Behrouz Boochani2019
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin af Judith Brett2018
Before Rupert : Keith Murdoch and the birth of a dynasty af Tom D. C. Roberts2017
Mannix af Brenda Niall2016
An Unsentimental Bloke af Philip Butterss2015
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer af Alison Alexander2014
The Two Frank Thrings af Peter Fitzpatrick2013
The many worlds of R. H. Mathews : in search of an Australian anthropologist af Martin Thomas2012
Grand obsessions : the life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin af Alasdair McGregor2011
Manning Clark: A Life af Brian Matthews2010
I Am Melba af Ann Blainey2009
Napoleon: The Path to Power af Philip Dwyer2008
These Few Lines - A Convict Story : The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes af Graham Seal2008
East of Time af Jacob G. Rosenberg2007
The idea of home : autobiographical essays af John Hughes2006
The Boy in the Green Suit: An Innocent Abroad in the Middle East af Robert Hillman2005
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession af Barry Hill2004
Rose Boys af Peter Rose2003
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM af Don Watson2003
A certain style : Beatrice Davis, a literary life af Jacqueline Kent2002
M : The Man Who Became Caravaggio af Peter Robb2000
Dreamtime Alice af Mandy Sayer2000
Snake Cradle af Roberta B. Sykes1998
The World of My Past af Abraham H. Biderman1996

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