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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1993
winner y
History : An Unpromised Land
South Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
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1993
Z828282
1993
single work
non-fiction
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Year: 1992
winner y
Patrick White : A Life
London
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Jonathan Cape
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1991
Z307107
1991
single work
biography
'Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biography draws not only on a wide range of original research but also on the single most difficult and important source of all: the man himself. Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
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Year: 1991
winner y
Jewels and Ashes
Newham
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Scribe
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1991
Z195663
1991
biography
First his parents made a journey to the New World. It was the 1930s, and Europe was seething. As he grew up, Arnold Zable heard tales, songs, fragments of the world they had left behind. He had inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. Finally, he had to confront the mystery: he had to travel back to the Old World, to his parents' home, to his grandparents' birthplace, and to a land pervaded by ancestral ghosts. (Publisher's blurb)
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Year: 1990
winner y
Nature's Pilgrim : The Life and Journeys of Captain S.A. White, Naturalist, Author and Conservationist
Netley
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1989
Z1180888
1989
single work
biography
Works About this Award
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The Legacy of Lysbeth Cohen 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 26 June 1993; (p. 9) -
Cohen Prize Short List 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News (Life/Style) , 18 June vol. 59 no. 37 1993; (p. 6)
