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UTAS Riawunna chair and School of History and Classics Professor, Henry Reynolds, is the co-author of Drawing the Global Colour Line, which won the non-fiction category in the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award this week.

Drawing the Global Colour Line was written by two of Australia's most respected historians, Henry Reynolds and Marilyn Lake and shared  the 2009 Non-Fiction Award and the $100,000 prize with Evelyn Juers who wrote House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann.

An academic at La Trobe University, Marilyn Lake graduated from UTAS with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts and also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Tasmania.

Drawing the Global Colour Line brings a global view of how white racial policies evolved and shows how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, countries worked together to exclude those defined as not-white.

The book covers policies that were implemented in the United States, China, Japan, Africa, India and Australia.
The award judges, Phillip Adams AO, Peter Rose and Professor Joan Beaumont, said it was a privilege to read Drawing the Global Colour Line, describing it as “remarkable, masterful work”.

Established in 2008 to recognise the importance of Australian literature and to honour talented Australian writers, the winner of each category of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. receives a prize of $100,000.

For more details on Drawing the Global Colour Line, see the publisher’s website, Cambridge University Press, at http://www3.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521881180