'Grand' winner of nation's richest biography award announced
Comments (1)The bold and dramatic story of two of the most significant individuals in our cultural history has won the $20,000 National Biography Award, Australia’s richest prize for biographical writing and memoir, the State Library of NSW announced TODAY [Monday 16 May].
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin by Alasdair McGregor reveals unique insights into this dynamic duo who won the international design competition for Australia’s capital, and then together overcame bureaucratic and political adversity to make a permanent mark on our national heritage.
Grand Obsessions was the unanimous choice of the three judges, praising the winning work as “marvellously written and produced” and offering “a kind of biography of the new capital city they [the Griffins] envisioned.”
On accepting the award, Alasdair McGregor said: "I couldn't think of two more interesting, demanding and endlessly fascinating characters about whom to write. They certainly had feet of clay - a biographer's delight."
Alasdair McGregor is available for interviews
See full media release and judges' report attached
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