CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST AWARD FOR BUSINESS LITERATURE
06-Sep-2011$30,000 Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize
Entries close Friday 14 October 2011
The Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize is an annual award established to encourage the highest possible standards of literary commentary on Australian business and financial affairs.
Launched in 2004 by law firm Blake Dawson and the State Library of NSW, the $30,000 prize is acknowledged as Australia's largest and most important award for business literature.
The Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize endeavours to stimulate writers with knowledge of Australia’s business sector to produce insightful and well researched books, enabling all Australians to be better informed about the inner-workings of the nation's commercial life and its participants.
The range of subjects covered by the Prize include: Australian corporate and commercial literature, histories, accounts and analyses of corporate affairs as well as biographies of business men and women.
The 2010 Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize was won by Paul Barry for Who Wants to be a Billionaire? The James Packer Story (Allen & Unwin).
The Prize is administered by the State Library of NSW. Eligible books need to be commercially available in Australia from 1 September 2010 to 1 September 2011.
Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded at www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards
The winner will be announced in early 2012.
For more information please contact:
Karen Gollan (Mon-Wed)
State Library of NSW
(02) 9273 1499, kgollan@sl.nsw.gov.au
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