Inga Clendinnen (83 works by)
Born: Established: 17 Aug 1934 Geelong ;
Gender: Female

BiographyHistory

Inga Clendinnen won 2004 Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction for her study of the first years of European settlement in New South Wales, Dancing with Strangers (Text Publishing, Melbourne).

In 1999 Clendinnen won the New York Times Best Book of the Year for Reading the Holocaust.

Awards

2007 Australian Humanist of the Year Award
2007 Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
2006 Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) For service to scholarship as a writer and historian addressing issues of fundamental concern to Australian society and for contributing to shaping public debate on conflicting contemporary issues.

Awards for Works

Agamemnon's Kiss : Selected Essays , 2006 essay selected work
2007 shortlisted Nita Kibble Literary Award
2007 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Tiger's Eye : A Memoir , 2000 autobiography short story prose selected work
2002 shortlisted National Biography Award
2002 inaugural winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) National Award for Innovation in Writing
2001 winner Nita Kibble Literary Award