2009 winner

   Ann Blainey, I Am Melba, Black Inc, Sydney, 2008 

 
    I Am Melba website

previous winners - put on another page

put all the stuff below on a new page

2009 shortlisted works

• Ann Blainey, I Am Melba (Black Inc.)
• Andrew Faulkner, Arthur Blackburn VC: An Australian Hero, His Men, and Their Two World Wars (Wakefield Press)
• Charles Happell, The Bone Man of Kokoda (Macmillan)
• Christine and Michael Morton-Evans, The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan (S&S)
• Greg de Moore, Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Fall (Allen & Unwin)
• Susanna De Vries, Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates (HarperCollins)

previous winners to go on a separate page

2008: joint winners
           Philip Dwyer for Napoleon, London, Bloomsbury, 2007
           Graham Seal for These Few Lines, Sydney, ABC Books, 2006
2007: Jacob Rosenberg for East of Time, Brandl & Schlesinger.
2006: John Hughes for The idea of home, Sydney, Giramondo.
2005: Robert Hillman for The Boy in the Green Suit, Melbourne, Scribe Publications.
2004: Barry Hill for Broken Song T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession, Sydney, Random House.
2003: joint winners
           Peter Rose for The Rose boys, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 2001, and
           Don Watson, Recollections of a bleeding heart : a portrait of Paul Keating PM, Sydney, Random House, 2002.

2002
Jacqueline Kent for A certain style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Ringwood, Victoria, Viking.

2000 Joint winners
Peter Robb for M, a biography of European painter Caravaggio, Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove, and
Mandy Sayer for Dreamtime Alice: a memoir, Milson's Point, NSW, Vintage.

1998
Roberta Sykes for Snake cradle, St Leonards, NSW, Allen & Unwin.

1996
Abraham Biderman for The world of my past, Melbourne, Victoria, AHB Publications.

Note: The State Library took over administration of the NBA in 1998.
It was awarded every two years until 2002 when the award became annual.