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Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature (2017-)
'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature (2002-2016)
or Nib Literary Award ; or Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
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History

'The Nib': Waverley Library Award for Literature was established in 2002. It is organised and supported by Waverley Council, with generous support from the Friends of Waverley Library and other community partners.

The award recognises excellence in literary research, and the winning book may be in any genre, and either non-fiction or fiction. The award provides a cash prize to the winner, with each of the shortlisted authors getting a smaller cash reward along with the Alex Buzo Prize.

In 2017, the Nib was renamed the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature. In addition to the main award, it included three other categories: the People's Choice, the Alex Buzo shortlisted prize, and a Military History Prize.

Source: http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/services/library/whats_on/regular_events/waverley_literary_award Sighted: 3/12/2013.

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v1587

Year: 2023

Indexed selectively. Also longlisted: Prudence Gibson's 'The Plant Thieves'; Fiona McMillan-Webster's 'The Age of Seeds' (shortlisted)
winner Alison Bashford for 'An Intimate History of Evolution'.

Year: 2022

Indexed selectively. Also shortlisted: Mortals by Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies (winner of the popular choice award).
winner y separately published work icon Signs and Wonders : Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss Delia Falconer , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 22597313 2021 selected work essay

'The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that make us who we are – have already been transformed.

'In Signs and Wonders, Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological change.

'Building on Falconer’s two acclaimed essays, ‘Signs and Wonders’ and the Walkley Award-winning ‘The Opposite of Glamour’, Signs and Wonders is a pioneering examination of how we are changing our culture, language and imaginations along with our climate. Is a mammoth emerging from the permafrost beautiful or terrifying? How is our imagination affected when something that used to be ordinary – like a car windscreen smeared with insects – becomes unimaginable? What can the disappearance of the paragraph from much contemporary writing tell us about what’s happening in the modern mind?

'Scientists write about a 'great acceleration' in human impact on the natural world. Signs and Wonders shows that we are also in a period of profound cultural acceleration, which is just as dynamic, strange, extreme and, sometimes, beautiful. Ranging from an ‘unnatural’ history of coal to the effect of a large fur seal turning up in the park below her apartment, this book is a searching and poetic examination of the ways we are thinking about how, and why, to live now.' (Publication summary)

Year: 2021

winner Luke Stegemann for 'Amnesia Road'.

Year: 2020

winner Rebecca Giggs for 'Fathoms'.

Year: 2019

winner y separately published work icon Her Mother's Daughter : A Memoir Nadia Wheatley , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2018 13938951 2018 single work biography

''Why didn’t you and Daddy want people to give you any presents?' I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. I assumed it was because she did not wish to be reminded of the ghastly mistake she had made in marrying my father.

'AS a child, Nadia Wheatley had a sense of the great divide between her parents, who had met and married while working in Germany on the front line of the Cold War. Growing up in 1950s Australia, the child became a player in their deadly contest. Was she her mother’s daughter, or her father’s creature?

'At the age of ten, the author began writing down her mother’s stories: her Cinderella-like childhood, and her escape into a career as army nurse and refugee aid worker. Fifty years later, the finished memoir is not only a loving tribute but also a social history of twentieth-century Australia, told through the lives of a mother and her daughter.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Works About this Award

Fresh Eye on Hilton Tragedy Linda Morris , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 November 2016; (p. 19)
Gong for Hilton Blast Research Stephen Romei , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 November 2016; (p. 14)
Portrait of a Flawed Artist Scoops Award Linda Morris , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 November 2015; (p. 31)
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