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 AU$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. See Australian Literature for more information about Australian authors and their works.
"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.
[edit] Winners by year
- 2007 Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing) [2]
- 2006 Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia) [3]
- 2005 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (Picador/Pan Macmillan) [4]
- 2004 Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities by Graeme Davison (Allen & Unwin) [5]
- 2003 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill (Knopf/Random House) [6]
- 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
