Nib Literary Award 2024 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced.
The longlisted titles are:
- Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.)
- Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, A&U)
- Datsun Angel (Anna Broinowski, Hachette)
- My Brilliant Sister (Amy Brown, Scribner)
- Book of Life (Deborah Conway, A&U)
- Donald Horne: A life in the lucky country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)
- Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
- Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
- Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, Melbourne University Press)
- Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths (Matthew Lamb, Knopf)
- Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle, its protectors and the man who fought for justice (Anne Manne, Black Inc.)
- Killing for Country: A family story (David Marr, Black Inc.)
- Wear Next: Fashioning the future (Clare Press, Thames & Hudson)
- A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Cassandra Pybus, A&U)
- Transgender Australia: A history since 1910 (Noah Riseman, Melbourne University Press)
- What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia (Dave Witty, Monash University Publishing).
The Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, is presented by Sydney’s Waverley Council. The award ‘celebrates the most compelling research-based literature published annually’, under the criteria of literary merit, quality research, readability, and value to the community.
This year’s judging panel included poet Jamie Grant, author and publishing professional Angela Meyer and publisher Julia Carlomagno, who assessed the 175 submissions for the award. Said Meyer: ‘It was difficult to narrow down the selection but the books that kept me coming back absolutely thrilled me—books with considered structures, compelling and appropriate styles, and discoveries on every page.’
A shortlist will be announced on 17 September, with each of the six finalists to receive the $1500 Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize. Winners of the Nib People’s Choice Prize ($4000) and the overall Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($40,000) will then be announced on 27 November.
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