Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award 2014 winner announced

Missing Christopher: A Mother’s Story of Tragedy, Grief and Love by Jayne Newling (A&U) has won this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award.

Newling was presented with the award at a ceremony in Sydney on 10 December to coincide with International Human Rights Day. Her book was chosen from a shortlist of four, which also included The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP), Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights (Right Now) and There No Place for Me? Making Sense of Madness (Kate Richards, Penguin).

The Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award is presented annually by the Australian Human Rights Commission as part of the Human Rights Awards. In 2013, the award was presented to Ranjana Srivastava for Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown between Doctors and Patients (Penguin).

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