Winner of “The Nib”

Waverley Council is pleased to announce Christopher Koch author of The Memory Room as winner of the "The Nib": 2008 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature (sponsored by The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund). The winner's prize of $20,000 & receipt of "The Nib" (statuette) acknowledges excellence in research by Australian authors of literary works of merit. The other finalists were Catherine Jinks for The Dark Mountain, Babette Smith for Australia's Birthstain, Waleed Aly for People Like Us, Paul Ham for Vietnam The Australian War and Kathy Marks for Pitcairn Paradise Lost. To find out more about the Award and read the judges comments please go to: http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/award