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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
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Year: 2012
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Good Living Street : The Fortunes of My Viennese Family
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
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2011
Z1784789
2011
single work
biography
In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century. Bonyhady follows the lives of three generations of women in his family who lived in Vienna, eventually fleeing to escape the Nazis and settling in a small flat in Cremorne.
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Year: 2001
Rowena Lennox for Fighting Spirit of East Timor -
Year: 1997
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King of the Australian Coast : The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822
Carlton
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Melbourne University Press
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1997
Z1128508
1997
single work
biography
Parker was son of the governor of New South Wales and the first native-born Australian to achieve flag rank in the Royal Navy. Important for his exploration and charting of Australia's coastline, he was also a naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, administrator, astronomer, artist and writer. (NLA catalogue record)
