Australian Walkley Book Award Finalists 2011
18-Oct-2011Judging for the Walkley Awards is based on a rigorous, two-tiered system, performed by panels of Australia's working journalists across all industry sectors. All finalists go forward for judging by the Walkley Advisory Board across 35 categories in print, radio, television, photography and all media. The Walkley Book Award finalists are listed below.
Walkley Award winners, announced on November 27, will also be eligible for the top prize for Australian journalistic achievement, the Gold Walkley.
Walkley Book Award
Abandoned: The sad death of Dianne Brimble, by Geesche Jacobsen (Allen & Unwin)
Mahabharata in Polyester, by Hamish MacDonald (New South Publishing)
Witness to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, by Fay Anderson (Melbourne University Press)
King Brown Country, by Russell Skelton (Allen & Unwin)
Bells: The Beach, the surfers, the contest, by Michael Gordon (Woolamai Publishing)
Lazarus Rising, by John Howard (Harper Collins)
Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and principles, by A.J. Brown (The Federation Press)
The Party Thieves, by Barrie Cassidy (Melbourne University Press)
An Unwinnable War, by Karen Middleton (Melbourne University Press)
An Eye for Eternity: The life of Manning Clark, by Mark McKenna (The Miegunyah Press)
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