FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award
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History

Sponsord by Melbourne University Published and awarded for a non-fiction book first published in Australia, of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian theme.

Notes

  • An award for 'a non-fiction book first published in Australia, of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian thesme'.

    Source: The Envelope Please (2006)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2007

winner y separately published work icon Arthur Boyd : A Life Darleen Bungey , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2007 Z1442726 2007 single work biography

'Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself-enigmatic, inarticulate, modest-has remained in the shadows until now.

'Based on over six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Darleen Bungey sweeps us into the intimate circle of one of Australia's most fascinating families. Arthur Boyd emerges as a passionate, dramatic figure whose self-effacing demeanour cloacked a strong personality that refused to allow his turbulent and sometimes tragic personal life to interfere with his creative genius.

'From Victoria's bohemian enclaves to the heady swirl of Melbourne and London in the years of artistic and social revolution, to the rural removes of Suffolk and the Shoalhaven, this is a journey into the mind and heart of a complex man whose absolute commitment to his art thrust aside personal adversity in the relentless pursuit of his work.

'There are art books and there are biographies. Arthur Boyd: A life is rare - a revelation of an artist's life as compelling as the writing about his art.' (Publication summary)

Year: 2005

winner y separately published work icon Judy Cassab : A Portrait Brenda Niall , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2005 Z1202207 2005 single work biography
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