Professor Nikos Papastergiadis wins 2025 Michael Crouch Award

Faculty of Arts Professor Nikos Papastergiadis has been awarded the 2025 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography Awards.

The award was in recognition of Professor Papastergiadis’ literary non-fiction work John Berger and Me, a memoir of his friendship with the late English writer and art critic John Berger.

“There is a warm feeling of recognition that comes with the awarding of this prize”, Professor Papastergiadis said.

“It is also a strange feeling. I have written so many other academic books and the reward for those books is always in how they open doors to further research and engagement.

“I never look back at these books but use them to move forward. With this new book, which is much more personal, there is a feeling of wanting to hold memories and to share them with others. It is very gratifying that others also want to stay with the diaspora stories in my book.”

The Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work is valued at $5000 and is awarded for an outstanding first published biography, autobiography or memoir by an Australian writer.