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| The National Biography Award was established in 1996 to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres. The National Biography Award is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award's benefactor, Geoffrey Cains. |
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2008 WINNER |
Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 v. 1
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These Few Lines
Author: Graham Seal
Category: Biography & Autobigraphy - General
With deftness and superb storytelling Graham Seal uses his own scholarly research, the fragments of letters, diary and journal entries left by Myra and William Sykes to give his readers an insight into an early Australia ... |
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2007 WINNER |
East of Time
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2006 WINNER |
The Idea of Home
Author: John Hughes
In this collection of autobiographical essays, John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War. Wi ... |
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2005 WINNER |
The Boy in the Green Suit
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2004 WINNER |
Broken Song
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2003 WINNER |
Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart
Author: Don Watson
BLEEDING HEART: noun, derisory. One of liberal or social democratic views. One who believes there is such a thing as a society. Not an economic rationalist, point head or econocrat. 'There are no bigger dreamers than in ... |
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Rose Boys: a Memoir of Life with Robert
Author: Peter Rose
Category: Biography & Autobigraphy - General
In telling the two brothers' story, Peter Rose draws on his journals, the journalism written about his brother and father, and interviews with many of the key people in Robert's life. The result is a moving account of ca ... |
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2002 WINNER |
A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life
Author: Jacqueline Kent
Category: Biography & Autobigraphy - General
At a time when australia was a small country that took almost perverse pride in its anti-intellectualism, beatrice davis affirmed the importance of our writers in every aspect of her working life. Australian literature w ... |
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2000 WINNER |
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Dreamtime Alice
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1998 WINNER |
Snake Cradle
Author: Roberta Sykes
Category: Biography & Autobigraphy - General
Roberta that you not only survived but triumphed is an incredible tribute to you and the human spirit.' David SuzukiIt is a testament to her writing as much as to her life that the reader becomes so immersed in the story ... |
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