The Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards—the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer.[1][2] The Awards recognise the works of women writers of fiction or non-fiction classified as 'life writing'. This includes novels, autobiographies, biographies, literature and any writing with a strong personal element.

The Kibble Literary Awards were established in 1994 and are named in honour of Nita Kibble (1879–1962), who was the first woman to be a librarian with the State Library of New South Wales.[3] She was Principal Research Librarian from 1919 until her retirement in 1943, and was a founding member of the Australian Institute of Librarians.

The Kibble Awards for Women Writers were established by Nita Dobbie, through her will, in recognition of her aunt, Nita Kibble, who had raised her from birth after her mother died.[1] Miss Dobbie followed her aunt into the library profession. She believed there was a need to foster women's writing in the community.[1] The awards are currently worth A$35,000 in total.[4]

The Trust established for the award is managed by Perpetual Limited,[5] and the award is administered in association with the State Library of New South Wales.[6]

Both awards were presented annually from their inception until 2016, when they were changed to biennial presentation.[7] In 2020, no awards were presented "due to a review of the funding trust and the award processes."[8]

Nita B Kibble Literary Award honorees

Nita B Kibble Literary Award winners and finalists[9][10]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1994 Marion Halligan Lovers' Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel Winner [11]
Joan Dugdale The Gripping Beast Finalist
Evelyn Crawford Over My Tracks Finalist
Hazel Rowley Christina Stead Bio Finalist
1995 Drusilla Modjeska The Orchard Winner [12][11]
Rita Cynthia Huggins and Jackie Huggins Auntie Rita Finalist
Simone Lazaroo The World Waiting to be Made Finalist
Brenda Niall Georgiana Finalist
Susan Varga Heddy and me Finalist
1996 Judy Cassab Judy Cassab: Diaries Winner [11]
Debra Adelaide Hotel Albatross Finalist
Hanifa Deen Caravanserai: Journey among Australian Muslims Finalist
Penelope Nelson Penny Dreadful Finalist
Mandy Sayer The Cross Finalist
1997 Helen Garner True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction Winner [11]
Glenda Adams The Tempest of Clemenza Finalist
Anne Coombs Sex and Anarchy Finalist
Suzanne Falkiner Ethel Finalist
Ethel Sue Woolfe Leaning Towards Infinity Finalist
1998 Roberta Sykes Snake Cradle Winner [11]
Barbara Blackman Glass After Glass: Autobiographical Reflections Finalist
Sally Dingo Dingo Finalist
Delia Falconer The Service of Clouds Finalist
Anne Whitehead Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Finalist
1999 Geraldine Brooks Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over Winner [11]
Frances De Groen Xavier Herbert Finalist
Kathy Golski Watched by Ancestors Finalist
Marion Halligan The Golden Dress Finalist
Rowena Ivers The Spotted Skin Finalist
2000 Drusilla Modjeska Stravinsky's Lunch Winner [11]
Thea Astley Drylands Finalist
Kate Grenville Idea of Perfection Finalist
Valerie Lawson Out of the Sky, she came Finalist
Amy Witting Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop Finalist
2001 Inga Clendinnen Tiger's Eye: A Memoir Winner [11]
Ruth Cracknell Journey from Venice Finalist
2002 Jacqueline Kent A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life Winner [11]
Marion Halligan The Fog Garden Finalist
Hilary McPhee Other People's Words Finalist
2003 Gail Jones Black Mirror Winner [11]
Kate Lyons The Water Underneath Finalist
Gaby Naher The Truth About My Fathers Finalist
Brenda Niall The Boyds: A Family Biography Finalist
2004 Fiona Capp That Oceanic Feeling Winner [11]
Gail Bell Shot Finalist
Anne Summers The End of Equality Finalist
2005 Gay Bilson Plenty Winner [11]
Helen Garner Joe Cinque's Consolation Finalist
Susan Johnson The Broken Book Finalist
2006 Brenda Walker The Wing of Night Winner [11]
Kate Grenville The Secret River Finalist
Heather Rose The Butterfly Man Finalist
2007 Deborah Robertson Careless Winner [13][11]
Inga Clendinnen Agamemnon's Kiss Finalist
Kathryn Heyman Captain Starlight's Apprentice Finalist
Gail Jones Dreams of Speaking Finalist
Sylvia Martin Ida Leeson: A Life Finalist
2008 Carol Lefevre Nights in the Asylum Winner [11]
Gail Jones Sorry Finalist
Mireille Juchau Burning In Finalist
2009 Jacqueline Kent An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin Winner [11]
Georgia Blain Births Deaths and Marriages: True tales Finalist
Kathleen Stewart The After Life: A memoir Finalist
2010 Shirley Walker The Ghost at the Wedding Winner [11]
Josephine Emery The Real Possibility of Joy Finalist
Kristina Olsson The China Garden Finalist
2011 Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight Winner [11]
Delia Falconer Sydney Finalist
Annette Stewart Barbara Hanrahan: A Biography Finalist
2012 Gail Jones Five Bells Winner [14][11]
Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Finalist
Charlotte Wood Animal People Finalist
2013 Annah Faulkner The Beloved Winner [15][11]
Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Finalist
Cate Kennedy Like a House on Fire Finalist
2014 Kristina Olsson Boy Lost: A Family Memoir Winner [16][17][18][11]
Debra Adelaide Letter to George Clooney Finalist
Melissa Lucashenko Mullumbimby Finalist
2015 Joan London The Golden Age Winner [19][11]
Sophie Cunningham Warning: The Story of Cyclone Finalist
Helen Garner This House of Grief Finalist
2016 Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance Winner [20][21][11]
Elizabeth Harrower A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories Finalist
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First Finalist
2017 No award presented [22]
2018 Fiona McFarlane The High Places Winner [22][23][11]
Maxine Beneba Clarke The Hate Race Finalist [24]
Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Finalist [24]
Helen Garner Everywhere I Look Finalist [24]

Dobbie Literary Award honorees

Dobbie Literary Award winners and finalists[9]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1994 Nola Fisher For Some Reason Winner
Mary Burbidge My Daughter, My Forever Baby Finalist
1995 Maria Cresa Lapping, Licking and Skinny Finalist
1996 Alana Valentine H is for Homo Finalist
1997 Pepe Trevor Listening for Small Sounds Winner
Fiona Capp Night Surfing Finalist
Catherine Ford Dirt Finalist
Connie Nungulla When You Grow Up Finalist
Margot Orum Fairytales in Reality Finalist
1998 Melissa Lucashenko Steam Pigs Winner [25]
1999 Eva Sallis Hiam Winner
2000 Margo Kingston Off the Rails: The Pauline Hanson Trip Winner
2001 Kim Mahood Craft for a dry lake Winner
Mischa Merz Bruising Finalist
Elizabeth Stead The Fishcastle Finalist
Hsu Ming Teo Love and Vertigo Finalist
2002 Julie Marcus The Indomitable Miss Pink: A life in Anthropology Winner
Susan Addison Mother Lode: Stories of Home Life & Home Death Finalist
2003 Shirley Painter The Bean Patch Winner
Saskia Beudel Borrowed Eyes Finalist
Rebe Taylor Unearthed Finalist
2004 Danielle Wood The Alphabet of Light and Dark Winner
Phyllis McDuff A Story of Light & Dark Finalist
Heather Tyler Asylum: Voices Behind the Finalist
2005 Paulette Gittins The Secret World of Annette Robinson Winner
Sarah Armstrong Salt Rain Finalist
Kimberley Starr The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Finalist
2006 Carrie Tiffany Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Winner
Debra Drake An Uncommon Dialogue Finalist
Kate Holden In My Skin Finalist
Wendy James Out of the Silence Finalist
Mary Ellen Jordan Balanda, My year in Arnheim Land Finalist
2007 Tara June Winch Swallow the Air Winner
Susan Duncan Salvation Creek Finalist
Ruth Ritchie Waterlemon Finalist
2008 Karen Foxlee The Anatomy of Wings Winner
Emma Hardman Nine Parts Water Finalist
Jessica White A Curious Intimacy Finalist
2009 Claire Thomas Fugitive Blue Winner
Darleen Bungey Arthur Boyd: A Life Finalist
Toni Jordan Addition Finalist
2010 Deborah Forster The Book of Emmett Winner
Karen Hitchcock Little White Slips Finalist
Robyn Mundy The Nature of Ice Finalist
2011 Kristel Thornell Night Street Winner
Lara Fergus My Sister Chaos Finalist
G.L. Osborne Come Inside Finalist
2012 Favel Parrett Past The Shallows Winner
Leah Swann Bearings Finalist
Amy T.Matthews End of the Night Girl Finalist
2013 Lily Chan Toyo: A Memoir Winner
Romy Ash Floundering Finalist
Courtney Collins The Burial Finalist
2014 Kate Richards Madness: A Memoir Winner [18]
Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest Finalist
Jill Stark High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze Finalist
2015 Ellen van Neerven Heat and Light Winner
Emily Bitto The Strays Finalist
Christine Piper After Darkness Finalist
2016 Lucy Treloar Salt Creek Winner [21][26]
Shirley Barrett Rush Oh! Finalist
Magda Szubanski Reckoning: A Memoir Finalist
2018 Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner Winner [27]
Madelaine Dickie Troppo Finalist
Micheline Lee The Healing Party Finalist

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kibble Awards for Women Writers
  2. ↑ "Kibble and Dobbie Awards". Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
  3. ↑ The Nita Kibble Literary Award
  4. ↑ "Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 shortlists announced | Books+Publishing". Books + Publishing. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Kibble | History". Kibble Literary Awards. Perpetual Limited. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Kibble Literary Award". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 longlists announced". Books + Publishing. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Kibble & Dobbie Literary Awards". This Reading Life. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  9. 1 2 "HISTORY OF SHORTLISTED AUTHORS". Perpetual. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Austlit. "Kibble Literary Awards - Nita May Dobbie Award". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
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  13. ↑ "Kibble Literary Awards". Perpetual Limited. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  14. ↑ "Kibble Literary Award won by Gail Jones for her novel Five Bells". Randwick Library. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  15. ↑ Morris, Linda (25 July 2013). "'The Beloved': Memoir that became a novel wins life writing award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  16. ↑ "2014 Kibble and Dobbie Awards winners announced". ANZ LitLovers LitBlog. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  17. ↑ Davidson, Helen (24 July 2014). "Kristina Olsson wins Kibble literary award for true tale of a lost child". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  18. 1 2 "Awards: Australia's Kibble and Dobbie Literary". Shelf Awareness. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
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  21. 1 2 "Awards: Kibble for Aussie Women Writers". Shelf Awareness . 15 July 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  22. 1 2 "Awards and Recipients". Perpetual. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
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