Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Nib Award 2024 longlist

12 August 2024

Seventeen books have been included on the recently announced Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Nib Award 2024 longlist. Also known as the “Nib”, the literary award celebrates excellence in Australian literary research, and as such works of any genre, including fiction, non-fiction, and autobiography, are eligible for inclusion.

A Very Secret Trade, by Cassandra Pybus
Alice™ The biggest untold story in the history of money, by Stuart Kells
Because I’m Not Myself, You See, by Ariane Beeston
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled, by Kate Fullagar
Book of Life, by Deborah Conway
Crimes of the Cross, by Anne Manne
Datsun Angel, by Anna Broinowski
Donald Horne, by Ryan Cropp
Edenglassie, by Melissa Lucashenko
Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths, by Matthew Lamb
Killing for Country, by David Marr
My Brilliant Sister, by Amy Brown
Reaching Through Time, by Shauna Bostock
Transgender Australia – A History since 1910, by Noah Riseman
Wear Next, by Clare Press
What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia, by Dave Witty
Wifedom, by Anna Funder

A shortlist of six titles will be published on Tuesday 17 September 2024, with the winner being named on Wednesday 27 November 2024.