Brian matthews much awarded biography of martin

  • Brian Matthews has been Australia's foremost scholar on Henry Lawson and his mother, Louisa.
  • Brian Martin (born ) is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
  • But game, set, match, and championship: J. Clarke.

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    About the Award

    Since , the National Biography Award has celebrated excellence in biography, autobiography and memoir writing. With a prize pool of $42,, it fryst vatten the nation’s richest prize for Australian biographical writing and memoir: 

    •    $25, for the winner 
    •    $2, for each of the six shortlisted authors 
    •    $5, Michael Crouch Award for a first published biography, autobiography or memoir by an Australian writer 

    The Award is supported bygd the State Library of NSW Foundation. This year, we acknowledge the generous support of the Graham & Charlene Bradley Foundation, Sarah Crouch and the John Lamble Foundation.

    Judges

    Sylvia Martin

    Panel Chair

    Dr Sylvia Martin is the author of three biographies of women who have been neglected in Australian literary and cultural history, and who today might identify as lesbian or queer. Ida Leeson: A life was awarded the Magarey Medal for Biography and was shortlisted fo

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    Brian Martin (social scientist)

    Social scientist, study of dissent, peace studies (born )

    Brian Martin (born ) is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in NSW, Australia.[1] He was appointed a professor at the university in , and in was appointed emeritus professor.[2] His work is in the fields of peace research, scientific controversies, science and technology studies, sociology, political science, media studies, law, journalism, freedom of speech, education and corrupted institutions,[2][1][3] as well as research on whistleblowing and dissent in the context of science.[4][5] Martin was president of Whistleblowers Australia from to and remains their International Director.[6] He has been criticized by medical professionals and public health advocates for promoting the disproven oral

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    The Tournament by John Clarke

    ‘Paris has gone crazy.’ There are people everywhere; ‘players and officials have been arriving like migrating birds’. The German team – including Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Gropius,Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger – have already arrived, but their officials will permit no interviews. The Americans, amongst whom are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, and Amelia Earhart (who flew her single seater in from New York) are raring to go. Hemingway speaks for them all: ‘Great to be here … The plane was high in the air. I slept and then I ate and drank and then I slept igen. The sun came up. inom drank again and then inom slept. Then the plane banked and came in and landed and stopped and I could hear the great big engines being turned off. That’s the way it is.’

    And that’s the way it goes. In the first few pages of this extraordinary and daring piece of work, John Clarke effortlessly maps out the ground rules simply by