Author takes home $25,000 prize for The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, which includes ‘surprising detail’ about Australia’s second prime minister
Judith Brett has won the $31,000 National Biography award for what the judges have called one of “the very best political biographies written in Australia”.
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin examines both the private and public life of politician and Australia’s second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, from his impact on national policy to his penchant for writing in the newspaper about himself under a pseudonym.
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