The Green Family Award for Tasmanian History
Launched in March 2017, the Green Family Award for Tasmanian History is a biennial award, in partnership with the University of Tasmania.
Purpose of the Award
The award recognises high quality published work that makes a significant contribution to an understanding of Tasmania’s past and seeks to celebrate and promote books on Tasmanian history and cultural heritage, including biographies.
The award will honour the achievement of authors researching Tasmanian history and cultural heritage, and who contribute to the knowledge of and interest in Tasmanian history and cultural heritage and draw national attention to the achievements of authors on Tasmanian history and cultural heritage.
Third Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2022 (nominations closed on 30 September 2021)
[NEW] Announcement of the Longlist by UTAS on 1 April 2022 as Joan Green OAM Remembered
We take this opportunity to congratulate those selected on the longlist
Speaking on behalf of the Green family, Caroline Johnston, one of Dick and Joan’s daughters, said, “The family is so pleased to continue to be involved in this award in partnership with the University of Tasmania. We are excited to hear of the books selected for long list for this third award and to see the variety of the subject matter; and appreciate the contribution of all the judges as their role is vital to this award.”
Second Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2020 & Lecture for Second Award (held 23 September 2021)
2020 Award Winners, Professor Tim Bonyhady and Greg Lehman, delivered the second Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History Lecture. This was an online (free) lecture.
Tim Bonyhady and Greg Lehman's book The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War serves to conjure up and interrogate Tasmania’s colonial past. Colonial representations of Tasmanian Aboriginal people are among the most remarkable and contentious expressions of Australian colonial art. The National Picture sheds new light on the under-examined figures in this difficult narrative: colonial artist Benjamin Duterrau, the controversial George Augustus Robinson and the Tasmanian Aboriginal people upon whose land the British settled. In this lecture, the authors reflect on the impact of their work and discuss the how being awarded the state’s most significant literary prize, The Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, has shaped their future works.
Green Family Award for Tasmanian History - Guidelines for Nominations
(NEW) These guidelines have recently been reviewed and the revised guidelines were published on 1 July 2021 in conjunction of the opening of nominations for the Third Green Family Award for Tasmanian History.
2017 Launch Event:
Green Family Award, and in partnership with the University of Tasmania, the Green Family Award for Tasmanian History
The Green Family Award was launched at a special event at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk Campus in March 2017.
