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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction: Judges 2008
| Judith Armstrong (Convenor)Associate Professor Judith Armstrong is a fellow of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre and former head of the Russian department at the University of Melbourne. Author, editor or translator of five academic works, one of which was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year, she left the university to write full time and has since published three life-stories and one novel. She frequently reviews for The Age, the Australian and the ABR, regularly writes articles for opera programs, and conducts tours to Russia. |
| Stephen ArmstrongStephen graduated in English Literature and History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. He is Executive Producer of Malthouse Theatre and Chairman of Chunky Move. Previous positions include Artistic Associate of Sydney Theatre Company, General Manager of Queensland Theatre Company and founding General Manager of Chamber Made Opera. He has published criticism and commentary for diverse publications and was a regular panelist on ABC TV’s Critical Mass. Stephen has been the grateful recipient of the Myer Group Arts Award, the George Fairfax Fellowship, the Berlin Theatertreffen Travel Scholarship and a scholarship to attend the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He delivered the 1999 Kenneth Myer Lecture, the Keynote Address for the 2006 Australian International Performing Arts Market and was recently a participant in the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit. |
| Peter CochranePeter Cochrane is a freelance writer based in Sydney. He is the author of numerous books including the companion volume to the ABC television series Australians at War and more recently the 2007 Age Book of the Year, Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (MUP 2006). Colonial Ambition was also the co-winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. |
| Mary DalmauMary Dalmau has many years of experience in the book trade, including 11 years running two large inner-city bookstores and 17 years at the helm of Reader’s Feast Bookstore. Mary Dalmau is only the second woman to serve as President of the Australian Booksellers Association in its 80-year history, and had her Presidency extended to make representation to the Australian Government. She has been a judge on national book design awards and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards; and is often called upon to lecture on the book trade to business, education, and government audiences. Mary was awarded life membership to the Australian Booksellers Association for her services to the trade in 2003. She undertakes voluntary work for local libraries, was shortlisted for the Telstra Business Woman of the Year in 2002, has served on the Board of the Mercy Private Hospital, and is currently on the advisory committee for local council library initiatives. |
| Jenny LeeJenny Lee became an editor by accident in 1982, when she began working on a critical history of Australia for release during the bicentenary (A People’s History of Australia, 4 vols, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988). From 1987 to 1994, she edited the literary and cultural quarterly Meanjin. She then spent six years working as a freelance book editor before taking a lectureship in Professional Writing at Deakin University, where she taught editing and publishing from 2000 to 2002. Since 2003, she has co-ordinated the postgraduate Publishing program at the University of Melbourne. She has a little book, Making Modern Melbourne, appearing with Arcade Publications in August 2008. | |
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