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The Shortlists
Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Prize
Tasmanian Bicentenary Local History Prize
Advisory Committee
$5000 Tasmanian Bicentenary Local History Prize – List of nominated books
$25,000 Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Prize – List of nominated books
131 Fabulous Books enter the Field
Winners of the Tasmanian Bicentenary History Prizes

Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Prize

This prize is part of the suite of prizes that collectively make up the Tasmania Pacific Region Prizes. The inaugural non-fiction prize will be awarded in 2004 as part of the Tasmanian Bicentenary. The winner will be awarded prize money of $25,000.

The Judges for this prize are Prof Lucy Frost, Dr Michael Roe and Ms Sylvia Lawson.

The shortlisted books are:

Mussolini by Richard Bosworth;
Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand by Mimi Colligan;
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill;
Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files by Mara Moustafine;
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond;
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields by Phillip Temple.

Bicentenary Local History Prize

This prize will be awarded to a work of history about Tasmania and may include biographies and family or local histories. The winner will be awarded prize money of $5,000.

The Judges for this prize are Dr Stephen Alomes, Mrs Barbara Valentine and Mrs Leone Scrivener.

The shortlisted books are:

The Eastern Shore: A History of Clarence by Alison Alexander;
Brothers’ Home: The Story of Derby Tasmania by John Beswick;
Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing by Jonathan King;
American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839 – 1850 by Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart;
The Bay Whalers: Tasmania’s Shore-based Whaling Industry by Michael Nash; and
John Bowen’s Hobart: The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania by Phillip Tardif.

 

 

 

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