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NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 WINNER

The State Library of NSW surveys compelling biographies of trailblazers and survivors alongside raw-edged memoirs by debut authors for the 2021 National Biography Award, the richest prize in Australia for biography and life stories.

NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021

In the Time of the Manaroans

MIRO BILBROUGH

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Back O'Cairns

Trekking the Cape York Peninsula...

Ion Idriess

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The Greatest Feeling in the World

Tim Sattler-Jones

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Spanian

The Unfiltered Hood Life

Spanian

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Twelve Summers

Being a Life-long Fan of Australian...

Adam Zwar

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Love Stories

Trent Dalton

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$32.99 

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The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins

Australia's greatest explorer

Peter FitzSimons

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How We Love

Notes on a life

Clementine Ford

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How to End a Story

Diaries 1995-1998

Helen Garner

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Caught In The Act

A Memoir by Courtney Act

Shane Jenek

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Lawson

Grantlee Kieza

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Dasher

The Kevin Wheatley VC Story

Michael C. Madden

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Inseparable Elements

Dame Mary Durack: A Daughter's Perspective...

Patsy Millett

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My Adventurous Life

Dick Smith

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It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This

Lisa Wilkinson

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Whole Notes

Life Lessons Through Music

Ed Ayres

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Doc

Jon Bradshaw

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Leaping into Waterfalls

The enigmatic Gillian Mears

Bernadette Brennan

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Autopsies for the Armchair Enthusiast

My Strange Encounters with Death...

Meryl Broughton

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The Silence Between Us

A Mother and Daughter's Conversation...

Oceane Campbell

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Girl, Transcending

Becoming the woman I was born to...

AJ Clementine

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Lies, Damned Lies

A personal exploration of the impact...

Claire G. Coleman

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You Shouldn't Have Joined ...

A memoir

Peter Cosgrove

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My Friend Fox

Heidi Everett

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Malachy

A father's story of love, laughter...

Dominic Frawley

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The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower

My Life (without the boring bits)...

Paul Hogan

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13 Pairs of Boots

The Road Travelled Was Only Half...

Mark Howison

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The Dancer

A Biography for Philippa Cullen...

Evelyn Juers

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Courage Under Fire

Daniel Keighran, VC

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Funkytown

A Year on the Brink of Manhood:...

Paul Kennedy

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Mary's Last Dance

Mary Li

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The Asparagus Wars

Carol Major

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UGLY

A Bikie's Life

Phil 'Ugly' Mawson

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Blood, Sweat and Steel

Curtis McGrath

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A Glorious Ride

From Jumble Plains to Eternity

Tony Mclellan

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The Boy From Long Gully

Australia's unsung hero from the...

Wilson McOrist

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Daring to Fly

The TV star on facing fear and finding...

Lisa Millar

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The Birthday Scrolls

Geoff Nicholls

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My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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No One Left Behind

Keith Payne

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All About Yves

Notes from a transition

Yves Rees

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Lowitja

The authorised biography of Lowitja...

Stuart Rintoul

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The Accidental Prime Minister

Annika Smethurst

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Best of Times, Worst of Times

Bomber Command, Two Men, One War...

Jeff Steel

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Ten Thousand Aftershocks

Michelle Tom

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A Bigger Picture

With new foreword

Malcolm Turnbull

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Edith Blake's War

The only Australian nurse killed...

Krista Vane-Tempest

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Nellie

The life and loves of Dame Nellie...

Robert Wainwright

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Home Truths

A Memoir

David Williamson

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