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.
The award has previously been won by exceptional scholars whose contributions to Tasmanian history have left an indelible mark.
2018: Rebe Taylor, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, Into the Heart of Tasmania.
2020: Tim Bonyhady, Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law and Professor Greg Lehman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Aboriginal Leadership, University of Tasmania, The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War.
2022: Dr Alison Alexander, The Waking Dream of Art: Patricia Giles, painter.
2024: Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
2022 Winner:
Dr Alison Alexander, The Waking Dream of Art: Patricia Giles, painter.
2020 Winner:
Authors Tim Bonyhady and Greg Lehman interrogate the visual record of colonial artists created during a brutal period in Tasmania's history, the Black War. For The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War (The National Gallery of Australia). READ MORE
2018 Winner:
Author Dr Rebe Taylor. For Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity (Melbourne University Press). READ MORE
Writing Tasmania's History: 2020 Green Family Award Forum
Held on 11 June 2020 as part of the “Island of Ideas”, Public Lecture Series, UTAS
Summary: Shortlisted authors for the state’s most significant literary prize, The Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, discuss the Black War, the fate of child convicts and a prominent figure from the colonial past.
Presenter(s):
Tim Bonyhady & Greg Lehman, The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War
Jacqueline Fox, Bound By Every Tie of Duty: John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land
Steve Harris, The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers
Hosted by Professor Kate Darian-Smith, College of Arts, Law & Education
2017 Launch Event
Green Family Award and, in partnership with the University of Tasmania, the Green Family Award for Tasmanian History
Further photographs of the 2017 Launch Event.
Photography primarily by the University of Tasmania, together with photographs Richard Green and Cam Johnston.
