The Nan Chauncy Award was initially established as a quinquennial awards and is now presented biennially in the Children's Book Council Awards.

The award was established to honour Nan Chauncy

Nan Chauncy

Nan Chauncy was a British-born Australian author of children's books.-Early life:Chauncy was born Nancen Beryl Masterman in Northwood, Middlesex, England and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia with her family in 1912, when her engineer father was offered a job with the Hobart City Council. She...

, who is recognised as a significant Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

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Award Category and Description

The Nan Chauncy Award is to recognise a person’s outstanding contribution to the field of children’s literature in Australia.

List of Nan Chauncy Award Winners

• 1983 - Marcie Muir
• 1988 - Joyce Oldmeadow
• 1993 - Laurie Copping
• 1998 - Walter McVitty
• 2000 - Belle Alderman
• 2002 - Maurice Saxby
• 2004 - Margaret Hamilton
• 2006 - Muriel Barwell
• 2008 - Margaret Wild
  Margaret Wild
  Margaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book...
  
  

See also

• List of Australian literary awards