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Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction: Judges 2009
| Helen MacDonald (convenor)Helen MacDonald is a senior fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne and holds the 2009 La Trobe Society Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. Her book Human Remains won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for a First Book of History and was short-listed for the Ernest Scott History Prize (2006). A new book, Possessing the Dead, will be published early in 2010. In addition, Helen writes for journals, literary and science magazines and newspapers. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers at the University of Melbourne. |
| Waleed AlyWaleed Aly a lecturer in politics at Monash University, and works within that university's Global Terrorism Research Centre. His debut book People Like Us: How Arogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Picador, 2007) has been shortlisted for several awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards. Waleed also writes regularly for the mainstream press and his work has appeared in The Guardian, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, among other publications. He has been commended at both the Walkley Awards and the Quill Awards for his commentary and was shortlisted for the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize in the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. |
| Chris McAuliffeDr Chris McAuliffe is director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively on contemporary art and on the interaction of art with sport, popular music, suburbia and Australian cultural history. He is the author of Art and Suburbia (World Art–Craftsman House, 1996), Linda Marrinon: Let Her Try (Thames & Hudson, 2007) and Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008). He is currently researching liaisons between punk rock and Jackson Pollock. |
| Brenda NiallMelbourne author Brenda Niall has combined her career as an academic in Monash University’s English Department with that of biographer and literary critic. She now writes full time. She is the author of four award-winning biographies: Martin Boyd: a Life (1988), Georgiana (1995), The Boyds: a Family Biography (2002) and Judy Cassab: A Portrait (2005). Her latest biography, The Riddle of Father Hackett, is due to be published in September 2009. |
| Sue TurnbullDr Sue Turnbull is Associate Professor in Media Studies at La Trobe University, where she teaches about media audiences and television. Her current research includes a history of Australian screen comedy, the history of television audiences in Australia and a history of the television crime genre. Sue reviews television for Radio National Breakfast and is chief crime fiction reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald. | |
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