Dave Witty’s book ‘What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia’, is one of the six shortlisted finalists for this year’s $40,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, an annual celebration of the very best of Australian research-based literature.
The book examines aspects of Australia’s history through our indigenous and non-indigenous trees.
Now in its 23rd year, the Nib Literary Award is one of Australia’s most high-profile and valuable book prizes. Nominations are judged on literary merit, research, readability, and value to the community with previous winners including celebrated historians Alison Bashford and Claire Wright, biologist Tim Low, novelists Helen Garner and Delia Falconer, and journalist Gideon Haigh.
The other 2024 shortlisted books are Reaching Through Time by Shauna Bostock (QLD), Book of Life by Deborah Conway (VIC), Donald Horne by Ryan Cropp (ACT), Wifedom by Anna Funder (NSW), Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (NSW), and each of the six finalists will receive the $1500 Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize and are eligible for the $4,000 Nib People’s Choice Prize.
This year’s finalists were chosen from over 175 submissions with a diverse array of subject matters and genres on display.
Recipients of the People’s Choice Prize and the $40,000 Mark & Evette Nib Literary Award will be announced at a public event on Wednesday 27th November 2024 at Bondi Pavillion Theatre at Bondi Beach.
For more information on the award and when the winner will be announced: https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/recreation/arts_and_culture/nib
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