The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
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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 Australia
n 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."
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.
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry....
and is valued at A$
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...
30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n 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."
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 HooperChloe HooperChloe Hooper is an Australian author. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime , was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book...
(Hamish HamiltonHamish HamiltonHamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton...
) - 2008 The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper (Allen & UnwinAllen & UnwinAllen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
) - 2007 Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing)
- 2006 Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia)
- 2005 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert DessaixRobert Dessaix- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
(Picador/Pan Macmillan) - 2004 Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities by Graeme Davison (Allen & Unwin)
- 2003 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry HillBarry Hill (writer)Barry Hill is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts ...
(Knopf/Random House) - 2002 The Boyds: A Family Biography by Brenda NiallBrenda NiallDr Brenda Niall AO is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers...
- 2001 Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 by Anna Haebich
- 2000 The White by Adrian CaesarAdrian CaesarAdrian Caesar is an Australian author and poet.Caesar was born in Manchester, United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He studied at Reading University and has held appointments at various Australian universities, including the Australian National University and the University of New...
- 1998 Romulus, My FatherRomulus, My FatherRomulus, My Father is a biographical memoir, first published in 1998, by Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita, which outlines the life of his father, Romulus Gaita . A film adaptation of the same name was released in 2007, starring Eric Bana, Franka Potente and Kodi Smit-McPhee.-Plot...
by Raimond GaitaRaimond GaitaRaimond Gaita was until 2011 Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London... - 1995 Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda NiallBrenda NiallDr Brenda Niall AO is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers...
- 1990 The Sixpenny Soldier by Roland Griffiths-MarshRoland Griffiths-MarshCorporal Roland Griffiths-Marsh MM, is an Australian soldier and author.-Life:Griffiths-Marsh was born in Penang, Malaya , and grew up in Hai Phong, Indochina . On 29 February 1940, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted with the Second Australian Imperial Force, taking his older brother's name and...