Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2019 longlist announced

13 August 2019 Books+Publishing

The longlist for the 2019 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

An Unconventional Wife: The life of Julia Sorrell Arnold (Mary Hoban, Scribe)
Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become (Lee Kofman, Affirm)
Reasonable Doubt: Spies, Police and the Croatian Six (Hamish McDonald, Doosra Media)
A Spanner in the works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s first all-girl garage (Loretta Smith, Hachette)
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong’s first step (Andrew Tink, NewSouth)
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Behrouz Boochani, Picador)
City of Trees: Essays on life, death and the need for a forest (Sophie Cunningham, Text)
The World was Whole (Fiona Wright, Giramondo)
Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir (Nadia Wheatley, Text)
The Arsonist (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
Troll Hunting (Ginger Gorman, Hardie Grant)
What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story (Melissa Fagan, Transit Lounge)
King of the Air: The turbulent life of Charles Kingsford Smith (Ann Blainey, Black Inc.)
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future (Alice Gorman, NewSouth)
Steve Smith’s Men (Geoff Lemon, Hardie Grant)
Books that saved my life: Reading for wisdom, solace and pleasure (Michael McGirr, Text)
Exploded View (Carrie Tiffany, Text).

The shortlist will be announced on 31 August, with the winners announced on 14 November at a breakfast event hosted by author Richard Glover.

The winner will receive a cash prize of $20,000, while the authors of the shortlisted books will each receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize of $1000.

The award, established by the Waverley Library in 2002, recognises the role of research in fiction and nonfiction.

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