The Barbara Ramsden Award was administered by Fellowship of Australian Writers and awarded annually to an author and editor in recognition of the efforts of both parties to produce a quality fiction or non-fiction book. The winners receive a memorial plaque. It was established in 1971 and was awarded annually until 1992. It was reestablished in 2006 with sponsorship from Society of Editors (Victoria) Inc.[1] The award was named after Australian editor Barbara Ramsden (1903–1971).[2] It was cancelled in 2016.[3]
Award winners
1971
- Michael Cannon (author) and Sue Ebury (editor) for Who's Master? Who's Man? (Nelson)
1972
- J. A. La Nauze (author) and Janet Mackenzie (editor) for The Making of the Australian Constitution (Melbourne University Press)
1973
- C. M. H. Clark (author) and Carol Bram (editor) for A History of Australia, Volume 3, (Melbourne University Press)
- Dorothy Green (author) and Shirley Purchase (editor) for Ulysses Bound : Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction (Australian National University Press[3]
1974 (joint winners)
- David Foster (author) and Lee White (editor) for The Pure Land (Macmillan)[4]
- John Levi and G. F. J. Bergman (authors) and Michael Page (editor) for Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers, 1788–1850 (Rigby)[4]
- Ronald McKie (author) and Robert Roseman (editor) for The Mango Tree (William Collins)[4]
1975 (joint winners)
- Geoffrey Blainey (author) and Lee White (editor) for Triumph of the Nomads (Macmillan)
- Thomas Keneally (author) and Philip Ziegler (editor) for Gossip from the Forest (Collins)
- Mary Rose Liverani (author) and Sue Ebury (editor) for The Winter Sparrows (Thomas Nelson)
1977
- Harry Gordon (author) and Jennifer Cunningham (editor) for An Eyewitness History of Australia (Rigby)[5]
1978
- Alexander Turnbull Yarwood (author) and Carol Bram (editor) for Samuel Marsden: The Great Survivor (Melbourne University Press)[6]
1979
- Manning Clark for A History of Australia, Volume IV (Melbourne University Press)
1980
- Oskar Spate (author) and Patricia Croft (editor) for The Spanish Lake, (Australian National University Press)[7]
1981
- A. W. Martin (author) and Wendy Sutherland (editor) for Henry Parkes: A Biography (Melbourne University Press)[8]
1982
- Gavin Souter (author) and Wendy Sutherland (editor) for Company of Heralds: A century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831–1981 (Melbourne University Press)
1983
- Rodney Hall (author) and Sally Moss (editor) for Just Relations (Penguin Australia)[9]
1984
- Lloyd Robson for A History of Tasmania, Volume I (Oxford University Press)[10]
1985 (joint winners)
- Peter Carey (author) and Craig Munro (editor) for Illywhacker (University of Queensland Press)[3]
- R. G. Geering (editor) for Ocean of Story : The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead (Viking)[3]
1986
- Elizabeth Jolley for The Well (Viking)[3]
1987
- Jessica Anderson (author), Susan Hawthorne and Jackie Yowell (editors) for Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (Penguin)[11]
1988
- Mark Henshaw (author), Margit Meinhold and Jackie Yowell (editors) for Out of the Line of Fire (Text Publishing)[12]
1989
- Amy Witting for I for Isobel (Penguin)[3]
1990
- Gerald Murnane for Velvet Waters (McPhee Gribble)[3]
1991
- Les Murray for Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux)[3]
1992 (joint winners)
- Alex Miller for The Ancestor Game (Penguin Australia)[13]
- Gail Jones for The House of Breathing (Fremantle Press)[3]
2007
- Donald Horne, Myfanwy Horne (authors) and Meredith Rose (editor) for Dying : A Memoir (Penguin)[3]
2008
- Kim Kane (author) and Elise Jones (editor) for Pip : The Story of Olive (Allen and Unwin)[3]
2009
- Alasdair McGregor (author) and Nicola Young (editor) for Grand Obsessions : The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern)[3]
2010
- Kristel Thornell (author) and Clara Finlay (editor) for Night Street (Allen and Unwin)[3]
2011
- Jennifer Gall (editor) for In Bligh's Hand : Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty (National Library of Australia)[3]
2012
- Neil Grant (author) and Jodie Webster (editor) for The Ink Bridge (Allen and Unwin)[3]
2013
- Felicity Volk (author) and Emma Rafferty (editor) for Lightning (Pan Macmillan)[3]
2014
- Jenny Hocking (author) and Susan Keogh (editor) for Gough Whitlam : His Time, Volume 2 (Melbourne University Publishing)[3]
2015
- Craig Munro (author) and Julia Carlomagno (editor) for Under Cover : Adventures in the Art of Editing (Scribe)[3]
References
- ^ "Awards – The Barbara Ramsden Award". IP Ed. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ Ramsden, Barbara. "Ramsden, Barbara Mary (1903–1971)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Barbara Ramsden Award". AustLit. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ a b c ""Awards by Fellowship of Australian Writers"". The Canberra Times, 5 March 1975, p16. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "Top Writer". The Canberra Times. 10 March 1977. p. 22. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS NAMED". No. p.9. Canberra Times. 13 March 1978. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Canberra professor wins quality-writing award". No. p3. Canberra Times. 29 March 1980. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Writers' awards". No. p3. Canberra Times. 4 April 1981. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Festival speakers win Fellowship". No. 21. Canberra Times. 6 April 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Talk on entries for best children's book". No. 27. Canberra Times. 11 April 1984. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Major SA prizes announced". No. 24. Canberra Times. 9 March 1988. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Seeing one's own life through others' eyes". The Canberra Times. Vol. 68, no. 21, 510. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 March 1994. p. 8 (THE CANBERRA TIMES BOOK SUPPLEMENT). Retrieved 15 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Guide to the Papers of Alex Miller". UNSW Canberra. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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