‘The Sex Lives of Australians’ named ACT Book of the Year

1 April 2014 Books+Publishing

The Sex Lives of Australians: A History by Frank Bongiorno (Black Inc.) has been named the 2013 ACT Book of the Year.

Bongiorno’s book was chosen from a shortlist that also included Canberra (Paul Daley, NewSouth), Island Earth: New and Selected Poems (S K Kelen, Brandl & Schlesinger) and I’m Ready Now (Nigel Featherstone, Blemish Books).

The award is worth $10,000 and is presented by the ACT government for ‘quality contemporary published literary works by ACT writers’.

The winner of the 2012 award was Bill Gammage for The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (A&U).

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