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The winner will be announced at a special event on Monday 12 August 2019. BOOK TICKETS

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2019 Shortlist

Do Oysters Get Bored? A curious life by Rozanna Lilley

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic

Miss Ex Yugoslavia

No Friend But The Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani translated by Omid Tofighian

No Friend But the mountain

One Hundred Years Of Dirt by Rick Morton

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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

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The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode

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Guidelines

About the Award

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2019 National Biography Award Judges

Past Winners

Listen to the 2018 Events

Shortlisted authors for the 2018 National Biography Award

2017 - National Biography Award

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2016 - National Biography Award

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2015 - National Biography award

Australian Poet C.J. Dennis on book cover of An Unsentimental Block - The life and work of C.J.Dennis by Philip Butterss

2014 - National Biography Award

Jane Franklin and image of coastline on book cover of The Ambitions of Jane Franklin Victorian Lady Adventurer by Alison Alexander

National Biography Award Past Winners

The Many Worlds of RH Matthews

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