Literature Award
Discover the Literature Award celebrating Australian writers who explore human rights themes and advance public understanding of human dignity.
Rights and Freedoms
Awards
30 January 2013
Summary
Discover the Literature Award celebrating Australian writers who explore human rights themes and advance public understanding of human dignity.
Date and time
1 January 2025
12:00 am-12:00 am (AEDT)
Summary
Literature Award Finalists
The Literature Award is awarded for a non-fiction work published in Australia. Examples could include books focussed on social history, social commentary, biography or human rights.
The finalists for 2014 are:
- Nicholas Clements, The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (University of Queensland Press)
- Kate Richards, Is There No Place for Me?: Making Sense of Madness (Penguin Books)
- Jane Newling, Missing Christopher, (Allen & Unwin)
- Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights, an anthology published by Right Now