Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
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 Australian 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." [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.
Winners by year
- 2009 The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)[2]
- 2008 The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper (Allen & Unwin)[3]
- 2007 Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing) [4]
- 2006 Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia) [5]
- 2005 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (Picador/Pan Macmillan) [6]
- 2004 Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities by Graeme Davison (Allen & Unwin) [7]
- 2003 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill (Knopf/Random House) [8]
- 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
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