Don Watson
Don Watson's best-selling book Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM was published in 2002 and won The Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier-Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Colin Roderick Award. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America, won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his 2003 book about the decay of public language, and Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words were also best sellers. American Journeys is his most recent book, and won The Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards in 2008. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.
His columns, articles and essays have appeared in all major Australian journals and newspapers. He also writes feature films, the latest of which was The Man Who Sued God.
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