Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Nettie Palmer.

"This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length." [1]

Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere.

Winners by year

  • 2009 The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)[2]
  • 2008 The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper (Allen & Unwin)[3]
  • 2007 Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing) [4]
  • 2006 Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia) [5]
  • 2005 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (Picador/Pan Macmillan) [6]
  • 2004 Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities by Graeme Davison (Allen & Unwin) [7]
  • 2003 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill (Knopf/Random House) [8]
  • 2002 The Boyds: A Family Biography by Brenda Niall
  • 2001 Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 by Anna Haebich
  • 2000 The White by Adrian Caesar
  • 1998 Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
  • 1995 Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall
  • 1990 The Sixpenny Soldier by Roland Griffiths-Marsh

References

  1. ^ State Library of Victoria
  2. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2009 Winner
  3. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2008 Winner
  4. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2007 Winner
  5. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2006 Winner
  6. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2005 Winner
  7. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2004 Winner
  8. ^ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2003 Winner

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