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Curtin University of Technology biographer Professor Graham Seal AM has become the first WA-based author to win the State Library of New South Wales National Biography Award.<\/p>\n
Professor Seal was named a joint winner of the $20,000 State Library of New South Wales National Biography Award for 2008 for his convict story These Few Lines: A Convict Story \u2013 the lost lives of Myra and William Sykes recently.<\/p>\n
Described as a powerful and moving 19th century convict story, Professor Seal’s biography was selected from a shortlist of 33 entries. The other winner was Philip Dwyer for Napoleon, 1769-1799 The Path to Power.<\/p>\n
On presenting the Award, NSW State Librarian Regina Sutton said the judges’ selection of two winners rather than one demonstrates the strength of biographical writing in Australia at present.<\/p>\n
Professor Seal was honoured to win this prestigious award.<\/p>\n
“I am delighted to receive the Award, as it is recognition of the importance of research and writing that reveals the lives of those who are usually history’s nobodies,” Professor Seal said.<\/p>\n
“My story is based on a poacher William Sykes who was transported to WA,”he said.<\/p>\n
“It tells of William’s life as a convict and the lives of his wife Myra and their family in England as revealed through a few surviving letters and many years of research that I undertook both here in Australia and in England.”<\/p>\n
Professor Seal is Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin.<\/p>\n
His other books have won awards in UK, USA and Australia and in 2007 Professor Seal was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his research.<\/p>\n
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