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Australian Historian Wins Literary Award
Clare Wright, a Melbourne historian, won the NSW Literary Awards book of the year for her nonfiction work 'Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions'. The judges praised it as deeply researched and highly original.
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The Guardian
The historian won $50,000 for her nonfiction book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, which judges praised as deeply researched, ‘highly original’ and ‘vividly alive’A “highly original” nonfiction by Melbourne historian Clare Wright, charting the creation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions – a se
2026-05-18 09:30 UTC