University of Western Australia Press

WA Premier’s Book Awards for 2007

UWA Press is delighted to announce that Dr Antonio Buti’s biography Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience is the winner of the non-fiction category, and has also been awarded the major prize for 2007, announced on 21 November 2008.
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Our congratulations also extend to the authors of the UWA Press Books shortlisted for these awards:

A History of the Beanbag and other stories by Susan Midalia
The Seamstress by Geraldine Wooller
Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1622-1850 by Graeme Henderson

We are also delighted to announce that Geraldine Wooller’s novel The Seamstress has been longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The IMPAC is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves nominations of books from libraries across the globe, and is open to books written in any language. The prize money is 100,000 Euros. The longlist consists of 146 books and includes eight other Australian books. The shortlist will be announced on 2nd April 2009, and the winner on 11th June 2009.

As well, Hanifa Deen’s account of a racial vilification case in Victoria in The Jihad Seminar, published in August, has been shortlisted in the 2008 Human Rights Medals and Awards administered by the Australian Human Rights Commission. The results will be announced on Wednesday 10 December in Sydney.

New Releases

BIOGRAPHY

Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley

Brian Dibble

978 1 921401 06 0 $29.95 Pb Add to cart

Doing Life is the eagerly awaited biography of critically acclaimed Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley.

Written by long standing colleague, Brian Dibble, the book chronicles Jolley's life from birth to death, exploring the characters and themes used in her writing and closely documenting the most personal moments in her rich life.

Dibble has used the privilege of complete access to Jolley's diaries, letters and unpublished works to produce a comprehensive testament to her life and work.

A must-read for Jolley scholars and all lovers of Australian literature.

BIOGRAPHY

The Zealous Conservator: A Life of Charles Lane Poole

John Dargavel

978 1 921401 14 5 $29.95 Pb Add to cart

A fascinating biography of a passionate pioneer of Australian conservation, hailed in 1981 by Western Australian Premier Sir Charles Court as the ‘founder of modern forestry’.

Charles Edward Lane Poole is presented as a man so captured by the ideals of forestry, science and rational land use that he followed their dictates across the world, regardless of personal consequences or political reality.

The story follows his life, studies and work in England, Ireland, France, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Papua and New Guinea, Canberra and Sydney.

BIOGRAPHY

Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945

Rosemary Lancaster

978 1 921401 13 8 $29.95 Hb Add to cart

Je Suis Australienne tells the stories of extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history, formulating their impressions—in fiction, diaries, letters, autobiographies—between 1880 and 1945.

Following the lives of a schoolgirl, an artist, novelists, nurses and a secret agent, the book’s sequential unfolding reveals Australian responses to key moments in French history: notably the Belle Epoque, World War I, the “roaring twenties”, the politically unstable 1930s and World War II.