This year’s shortlist for the National Biography Award has been announced.
This Award is presented annually to a published work of biographical or autobiographical writing aiming to promote public interest in these genres.
The six shortlisted titles for 2016 include:
- Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
- Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
- Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam’s Beijing Envoy by Stephen FitzGerald
- Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
- Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia’s greatest war correspondent by Peter Rees
- Mannix by Brenda Niall
The winner of this Award will receive $25,000 prize, and will be announced on August 8 at a free public event at the State Library of NSW. You can read more about the shortlisted titles here.
