Born: Established: 1964 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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In 2005, Daley won the Paul Lyneham Award for Political Writing for work for The Bulletin.
Personal Awards
- 2014 winner Kennedy Awards Peter Ruehl Award for Outstanding Columnist.
- 2014 winner Kennedy Awards John Newfong Award for Outstanding Indigenous Affairs Reporting.
- 2014 winner Walkley Award — Coverage of Indigenous Affairs For articles for the Guardian Australia, including 'Why Does the Australian War Memorial Ignore Frontier War?'
Awards for Works
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y
Jesustown
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
,
2021
21836915
2021
single work
novel
'From award-winning journalist Paul Daley comes a gripping multi-generational saga about Australian frontier violence and cultural theft that will capture the national imagination.
'Morally bankrupt popular historian Patrick Renmark leaves London in disgrace after the accidental death of his infant son. With one card left to play, he takes a commission to write the biography of his pioneering anthropologist grandfather.
'With no enthusiasm and even less integrity, Patrick travels to the former mission town in Australia's far north where his grandfather famously brokered 'peace' between the Indigenous people of the area and the white constabulary.
'Of course nothing is as it seems, or as Patrick wants it to be. Unable to lay his own son to rest, Patrick unwillingly becomes part of local lawyer Jericho Bakerman's quest to return the settlement's ancestral remains to Country.' (Publication summary)
- 2023 shortlisted ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards — Fiction
- 2023 longlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
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Canberra
Sydney
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NewSouth Publishing
,
2012
Z1896300
2012
single work
prose
'An implicit sense of public service and "otherness" has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here.'Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay on because they discover unanticipated promise and opportunity in a city that the rest of the country loathes but can't really do without. Daley's Canberra begins and ends at the lake and its forgotten suburbs, traces of which can still be found on Burley Griffin's banks. It meanders through the cultural institutions that chronicle the unsavoury early life of Canberra, the graveyard at St John's where the pioneers rest and the mountains that surround the city. In Canberra people don't ask you where you went to school, as they do in Melbourne, or where your house is and how much you paid for it, as they do in Sydney. They ask you where you've come from. And how long you're going to stay.' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2013 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
- 2012 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
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Beersheba : A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War
Carlton
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Melbourne University Press
,
2009
Z1619989
2009
single work
non-fiction
Paul Daley's search for Beersheba takes him from Australia to Israel, from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode that sits at odds with the Anzac myth and legend.
- 2010-2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
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