Don Watson

Don Watson’s Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating, Prime Minister, 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 Association’s Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year 2003. Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, another best-seller, was published in 2004. His most recent book, American Journeys, 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. Bendable Learnings was published in 2009.