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National Biography Award winners announced

Wednesday
Wednesday 10 August 2022

Bernadette Brennan’s “brilliant and balanced” portrait of the complicated life of Australian literary figure Gillian Mears has won the $25,000 National Biography Award. 

National Biography Award winners

Library Bar deck to be extended

Wednesday
Wednesday 3 August 2022

Great news … our plans to extend the Library Bar's popular observation deck have now been approved.

People having drinks on the observation deck of the Library Bar

National Biography Award announcement

Wednesday
Wednesday 3 August 2022

The winners will be announced live on ABC Radio Sydney on Wednesday 10 August, from 9 am. 

A pile of memoir and biography books.

National Biography Award shortlist announced

Wednesday
Wednesday 13 July 2022

The memoirs of Helen Garner, David Williamson AO, Amani Haydar and Lech Blaine, along with biographies of some of Australia’s best-known writers, have been shortlisted.

National Biography Award shortlist 2022

Mona Brand Award winners announced

Thursday
Thursday 19 May 2022

First Nations theatre-maker Andrea James was awarded the $30,000 Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers.

2022 Mona Brand Award winner