Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award

Waverley Council is delighted to announce the longlist for the 2021 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award.

• The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers,
  Bill Birtles (Allen & Unwin)
• The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II SydneyTanya Bretherton (Hachette Australia)
• Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim, Gabrielle Carey (UQP)
• Monsters: A reckoning, Alison Croggon (Scribe)
• Brave New Humans: The Dirty Reality of Donor Conception, Sarah Dingle (Hardie Grant)
• The Golden Maze, Richard Fidler (Harper Collins Australia)
• The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19,
  Tim Flannery (Text Publishing)
• The Last Lions of Africa, Anthony Ham (Allen & Unwin)
• The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek, Kate Holden (Black Inc Books)
• Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe, Zoe Holman (MUP)
• A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future, Ramona Koval (Text Publishing)
• The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith, Sarah Krasnostein (Text Publishing)
• Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge, Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
• Return to Uluru, Mark McKenna (Black Ink Books)
• Son of the Brush, Tim Olsen (Allen & Unwin)
• A Paper Inheritance, Dymphna Stella Rees (UQP)
• The Imitator, Rebecca Starford (Allen & Unwin)
• Amnesia Road, Landscape, violence and memory, Luke Stegemann (NewSouth Books)

Waverley Council is delighted to announce the 2020 winners: Congratulations to:

							Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($20,000)  FATHOMS: The World In The Whale by Rebecca Giggs (Scribe Publications)
							Nib People's Choice Prize ($1,000) The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal (Allen & Unwin)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize ($1,000 each)
The Shortlist Prize is named in recognition of the distinguished author and playwright Alex Buzo, who was a Waverley resident and instrumental in the establishment of the Nib Award.

• After the Count: The death of Davey Browne by Stephanie Convery (Penguin)
• FATHOMS: the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs (Scribe Publications)
• The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal (Allen & Unwin)
• Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers; Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson by Brenda Niall (Text Publishing)
• The Hilton Bombing; Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga
  by Imre Salusinszky (Melbourne University Publishing)
• The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague(Hardie Grant Publishing)

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award finalists and Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize winners will be announced on 1 September. The People's Choice Prize and major award winners will be announced on 12 November.

Since its inception, the Nib has distributed more than $400,000 directly to deserving Australian authors including previous winners Erik Jensen, Gideon Haigh, Clare Wright OAM and Nadia Wheatley. In 2020, the Nib has a total prize pool of $27,000 on offer across three categories including the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize (6x $1,000), Nib People’s Choice Prize ($1,000) and the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($20,000). This year's long-listed titles now progress to the next round of judging and move closer to potentially sharing in total prize pool of $27,000. Winners are decided by an independent panel of three judges each of whom bring a wealth of experience from across the literary world.