German national biography awards

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The DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Best Book in History and Social Sciences is funded through the North American office of the German Academic Exchange.
The 2023 shortlist included the diaries of Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper's memoir, a portrait of a poet and remarkable true stories by three debut writers.

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Carl Geibel

Hungarian-born German book dealer and publisher

Carl Geibel(néCarl Stephan Franz; 19 May 1842 - 5 June 1910) was a Hungarian-born German book dealer and publisher. He built up Duncker & Humblot [de; es; it; la; no; sv], the Leipzig based publisher of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (General German Biography), a 56 volume German dictionary of national biography covering approximately 26,500 notable German and Dutch people who died before 1900.^[1]^[2]

Life

Family

Carl Stephan Franz Geibel was born in Pest (today the central part of Budapest) where his parents were living in connection with his father's business. He was the eldest of his parents' four recorded sons. His father, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Geibel [de] (1806-1884), was also a successful book dealer and publisher.^[3] Carl Geibel, the father, came originally from Halle. The mother, born Leonore Weisz, had been born in 1820 in Szeged, a city to the south of Budapest.^[3] His brother, Stephan Geibel (1847–1903), was

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Dictionary of National Biography

Reference on notable British figures

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

First series

Hoping to emulate national biographical collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1875), in 1882 the publisher George Smith (1824–1901), of Smith, Elder & Co., planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached Leslie Stephen, then editor of the Cornhill Magazine, owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the Biographia Britannica, the name of an earlier eighteenth-century reference work

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My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood, Ann-Marie Priest’s biography one of Australia’s finest poets, won the National Biography Award 2023. The Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work was awarded to Tom Patterson for Missing, a gripping story about a brilliant misfit and former law student who lives for decades in the wilderness of northern New South Wales.

Hear from the winners of the National Biography Award, in conversation with the 2022 winner for Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, Dr Bernadette Brennan, and one of judges, Rick Morton.

Since 1996, the National Biography Award has celebrated excellence in biography, autobiography and memoir writing. With a prize pool of $42,000, it is the nation’s richest prize for Australian biographical writing and memoir. The overall winner receives $25,000. The $5,000 Michael Crouch AC Award is be presented to the best debut biography or memoir in honour of the late Library benefactor and former Award supporter.

The 2023 shortlist included the diaries of Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper’s memoir, a portrait of a po