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The Shortlists

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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