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Premier's Literary Awards
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Vance Palmer Prize
Nettie Palmer Prize
Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
CJ Dennis Prize
Louis Esson Prize
Alfred Deakin Prize
Village Roadshow Prize
Prize for Science Writing
Prize for a First Book of History
Prize for Indigenous Writing
John Curtin Prize
Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
Grollo Ruzzene Prize
 
 

The Prize for a First Book of History

This biennial prize is for a book that is the author's first solely written history book.

The prize aims to encourage the discussion and writing of history in all its forms and to reward original and scholarly research.

The Prize for a First Book of History is not offered in 2009.

Winner and Shortlist 2008
Judges 2008

Winner 2006
Shortlist 2006
Judges 2006

Winner 2004
Shortlist 2004
Judges 2004

Previous winners include: The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured Word by Robert Kenny (2008), Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection by Helen MacDonald (2006) and Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor.

 
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