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Following a review and suspension of the WA Premier's Book Awards, UWA Publishing has won two awards at a ceremony on September 1.

Doing Life:  A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley , by Brian Dibble won the WA History award in the 2008 category, while Penelope Hetherington's Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses In Western Australia: 1829 -1910 won the award in the 2009 category.

Seven UWAP titles were shortlisted for the awards:  Geoffrey Bolton's Land of Vision and Mirage: A History of WA Since 1826 ;  Tiffany Shellam's Shaking Hands on the Fringe:  Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George's Sound ; The Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia , edited by Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard; Simon Adams' The Unforgiving Rope:  Murder and Hanging at Australia's Western Frontier and Emily Ballou's The Darwin Poems .

UWA Publishing director, Professor Terri-ann White said she was thrilled with the two wins and the large number of UWAP titles shortlisted across both years.

The WA Premier's Book Awards underwent a review in 2008 and was reinstated this year with and increase in prize money to $110,000.  Both 2008 and 2009 titles were awarded at the same event.

Media references

Sylvia Defendi (UWA Publishing)  (+61 8)  6488 6804  /  (+61 4) 17 967 415
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716