Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
or
Baillie Gifford Prize
(2016-)
Subcategory of
Awards
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International Awards
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Notes
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The prize...aims to reward the best of non-fiction, from biography, travel and popular science to the arts and current affairs....The list of books considered for the prize is compiled from publishers' submissions, and authors of all non-fiction books published in the UK are allowed to enter, regardless of nationality. The award is sponsored by BBC Four. (BBC website)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2004
winner y
Stasiland
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2002
Z1001793
2002
single work
non-fiction
(taught in 5 units)
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Encounters : Real Life Reading 2006; (p. 9-174)To write this non-fiction work about life in the former East Germany, Anna Funder interviewed former Stasi officers and the people they surveilled. Described in the National Library of Australia record as 'A book of travel, history and biography that reads like a documentary novel,' Stasiland takes 'a deliberately subjective and "literary" approach' to its material with an 'emphasis on a sympathetic authorial persona as the source of the reader's perspective' (Susan Lever 'The Crimes of the Past: Anna Funder's Stasiland and Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation'. Paper delivered at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference 2006).
Works About this Award
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Stasiland Takes Top British Literary Prize 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 June 2004; (p. 15)
