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History
Previously the Con Weickardt Prize. Awarded for a published work of biography, autobiography or memoirs.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1992
winner y Inside Outside : Life Between Two Worlds North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z248856 1992 single work autobiography -
Year: 1991
winner y Journeys into Night Hawthorn : Hudson Publishing , 1991 Z162340 1991 single work autobiography -
Year: 1990
winner y Poppy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1990 Z791794 1990 single work novel (taught in 2 units) Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. When the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and had an apparently happy life until, suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium. (Source: Libraries Australia) -
Year: 1989
winner y The Puzzles of Childhood Ringwood : Viking , 1989 Z11482 1989 single work autobiography -
Year: 1988
winner y Martin Boyd : A Life Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1988 Z551169 1988 single work biography