The Nib’s Anzac Centenary Literary Prize announced, shortlist released

The Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, will include an additional award this year to mark the Anzac centenary.

The Nib’s Anzac Centenary Literary Prize, worth $3000, encompasses ‘books which illustrate the service and sacrifice of Australian servicemen and women, and families of the broader homefront during the First World War’, and will be judged according to the Nib’s ‘general judging criteria of excellence in literary research, readability, literary merit and value to the community’.

The shortlisted titles are:

• The Secrets of the Anzacs: The Untold Story of Venereal Disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919 (Raden Dunbar, Scribe)
• Seasons of War: A Novel (Christopher Lee, Viking)
• One Minute’s Silence (David Metzenthen, illus by Michael Camilleri, A&U)
• Bearing Witness (Peter Rees, A&U).

The winner will be announced on the 25 November, along with the winner of the Waverley Library Award for Literature. The shortlist for the Waverley Library Award for Literature was announced earlier this month.

For more information about the award, visit the Waverley Library website here.

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