Nita Kibble Literary Award

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The Nita Kibble Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as 'life writing' for Australian women writers. It was established in 1994 and is named in honour of Nita Kibble (1879-1962), who was the first woman to be a librarian with the State Library of New South Wales.[1] She was Principal Research Librarian from 1919 until her retirement in 1943, and was a founding member of the Australian Institute of Librarians.

The Kibble Awards for Women Writers were established by Nita Dobbie, through her will, in recognition of her aunt, Nita Kibble, who had raised her from birth after her mother died.[2] Miss Dobbie followed her aunt into the library profession. She believed there was a the need to foster women’s writing in the community.[2]

Two awards are made each year: the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers and the Dobbie Encouragement Award (which is for a first published work by a female writer).[2][3]

The award is currently worth AU$20,000.

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[edit] Winners of the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers

[edit] Shortlisted works for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award

Winners are listed in bold type.

2008

  • Sorry, Gail Jones
  • Burning In, Mireille Juchau
  • Nights in the Asylum, Carol Lefevre

2007

  • Agamemnon's Kiss, Inga Clendinnen
  • Captain Starlight's Apprentice, Kathryn Heyman
  • Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
  • Ida Leeson: A Life, Sylvia Martin
  • Careless, Deborah Robertson

2006

2005

2004

  • Shot, Sydney Bauer
  • That Oceanic Feeling, Fiona Capp

2003

2002

  • The Fog Garden, Marion Halligan
  • A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, Jacqueline Kent
  • Other People's Words, Hilary McPhee

2001

2000

1999

  • Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over, Geraldine Brooks

1998

  • Glass After Glass: Autobiographical Reflections, Barbara Blackman
  • Snake Cradle, Roberta Sykes
  • Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay, Anne Whitehead

1997

1996

  • Judy Cassab: Diaries, Judy Cassab
  • Caravanserai: Journey among Australian Muslims, Hanifa Deen

1995

  • Auntie Rita, Rita Cynthia Huggins and Jackie Huggins
  • The World Waiting to be Made, Simone Lazaroo
  • The Orchard, Drusilla Modjeska

1994

[edit] Winners of the Dobbie Encouragement Award

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Nita Kibble Literary Award
  2. ^ a b c Kibble Awards for Women Writers
  3. ^ Kibble and Dobbie Awards

[edit] See also