David Day
Among his many books, David Day has published several biographies of Australian prime ministers, with the most recent being a two-volume biography of Bob Hawke.
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David Day
David Day has written more than twenty books to great acclaim, both here and overseas. Apart from eight political biographies, including prize-winning biographies of John Curtin and Ben Chifley, he has written several books about the Second World War and others on Antarctica. He has won or been short-listed for several literary prizes, including the South Australian Festival Prize for Literature, The National Biography Award, the NSW Premier’s Literary Prize, the NSW Premier’s History Award, the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Book of the Year. A graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge Universities, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, he has been a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, a visiting fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, a professor of history at University College Dublin, a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting fellow at the University of Aberdeen. His most recent book is Hawke PM.
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Hawke PM: The Making of a Legend
DATE March 28 TIME 10:00 am WHERECummings Room Newcastle City Hall Book nowBY THE ARTIST
