FAW Herb Thomas Literary Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Previously the Con Weickardt Prize. Awarded  for a published work of biography, autobiography or memoirs.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1992

winner y separately published work icon Inside Outside : Life Between Two Worlds A. P. Riemer , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z248856 1992 single work autobiography

'Autobiographical account of the changes observed in Australian society in the years following World War II as experienced by the author and his family after leaving Hungary. The author's return to Budapest in 1990 prompts comparisons to the situation in Australia.' (Publication summary)

Year: 1991

winner y separately published work icon Journeys into Night D. E. Charlwood , Hawthorn : Hudson Publishing , 1991 Z162340 1991 single work autobiography

Year: 1990

winner y separately published work icon Poppy Drusilla Modjeska , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1990 Z791794 1990 single work novel (taught in 2 units) Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. When the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and had an apparently happy life until, suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium. (Source: Libraries Australia)

Year: 1989

winner y separately published work icon The Puzzles of Childhood Manning Clark , Ringwood : Viking , 1989 Z11482 1989 single work autobiography

Year: 1988

winner y separately published work icon Martin Boyd : A Life Brenda Niall , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1988 Z551169 1988 single work biography
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