Queensland Premier's Literary Awards

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The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards was an Australian literary award inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was a leading literary award within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money over 14 categories making it one of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offered up to $25,000 for 1st prize.

The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election.

In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continue. The judging panel remained the same, and University of Queensland Press agreed to continue to publish the winners of the Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award and the Unpublished Indigenous Writer, David Unaipon Award.

The Queensland Literary Awards Inc Committee oversees the newly formed Queensland Literary Awards. The 2012 QLA were presented at the State Library of Queensland on 4 September 2012. Go to [1] for details of the 2012 shortlists and winners. The QLA Inc Committee established a new program the Queensland Writers Fellowships which now provides $15,000 grants to three Queensland writers each year. The inaugural Fellowships will be awarded on 10 July 2013. The 2013 Queensland Literary Awards will be awarded at a ceremony at State Library of Queensland on 4 September 2013.

Fiction Book Award

2011 Reading Madame Bovary, Amanda Lohrey

2010 Summertime, J. M. Coetzee

2009 Wanting by Richard Flanagan

2008 The Spare Room by Helen Garner

2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

2006 The Garden Book by Brian Castro

2005 The Turning by Tim Winton

2004 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee

2003 Due Preparations For The Plague by Janette Turner Hospital

2002 The Volcano by Venero Armanno

2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

2000 Drylands by Thea Astley

1999 Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray

Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award

2011 The Beloved, Annah Faulkner

2010 RPM, Noel Mengel

2009 No Award. The prize was shared between four shortlisted authors: Inga Simpson, Rachel Claire, Chris Somerville and Pamela Douglas. Extracts from the shortlisted works were published in the 09:05 issue of Perilous Adventures: The Writer's Magazine.

2008 Omega Park by Amy Vought Barker

2007 Life in the Bus Lane by Ian Commins

2006 The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee

2005 The Long Road of the Junkmailer by Patrick Holland

2004 An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang

2003 The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Kimberley Starr

2002 The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton

2001 Mama Kuma: One Woman, Two Cultures by Deborah Carlyon

2000 The Bone Flute by Nike Bourke

1999 Shoelaces by Jillian Watkinson

Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award

2013 Heat and Light,by Ellen van Neerven

2011 Mazin' Grace, Dylan Coleman

2010 Purple Threads, Jeanine Leane

2009 The Boundary by Nicole Watson

2008 Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara

2007 Skin Painting by Elizabeth Eileen Hodgson

2006 Me, Antman and Fleabag by Gayle Kennedy

2005 Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt

2004 Dust on Waterglass by Tara June Winch (published as Swallow the Air)

2003 Whispers of This Wik Woman by Fiona Doyle

2002 Home by Larissa Behrendt

2001 The Mish by Robert Lowe

2000 Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven

1999 Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight by Samuel Wagan Watson

1998 Is That You Ruthie? by Ruth Hegarty

1997 When Darkness Falls by John Bodey

1996 Black Angels Red Blood by Steven McCarthy

1995 Warrigal's Way by Warrigal Anderson

1994 The Sausage Tree by Valda Gee and Rosalie Medcraft

1993 Bridge of Triangles by John Muk Muk Burke

1992 Sweet Water, Stolen Land by Philip McLaren

1991 Broken Dreams by Bill Dodd

1990 Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter by Doris Pilkington Garimara

1989 Holocaust Island by Graeme Dixon

Non-Fiction Book Award

2011 An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna

2010 The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, Mark Tredinnick

2009 The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper

2008 Muck by Craig Sherborne

2007 Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Professor Tom Griffiths

2006 Packer's Lunch by Neil Chenoweth

2005 Papunya – A Place Made After the Story by Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon

2004 A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb

2003 Meeting of the Waters by Margaret Simons

2002 The Boyds: A Family Biography by Dr Brenda Niall

2001 A Fine and Private Place by Brian Matthews

History Book Award – Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award

2011 Northern Voyagers: Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history, Alan Powell

2010 Sydney Harbour: A history, Ian Hoskins

2009 Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe

2008 Drawing the Global Colour Line by Professor Marilyn Lake and Professor Henry Reynolds

2007 Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark

2006 Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins by Dr Peter Edwards

2005 The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech by Shane White and Graham White

2004 Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen

2003 Mussolini by Professor R. J. B. Bosworth

2002 Gallipoli by Les Carlyon

2001 The Colonial Earth by Tim Bonyhady

2000 John Curtin: A Life by David Day

1999 The Sky Travellers by Bill Gammage

Children's Book Award – Mary Ryan's Award

2011 Just a Dog by Michael Gerard Bauer

2010 Toppling by Sally Murphy

2009 Little Blue by Gaye Chapman

2008 The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas

2007 Layla Queen of Hearts by Glenda Millard

2006 The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley (who can't help flying high and falling in deep) by Martine Murray

2005 Camel Rider by Prue Mason

2004 Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson

2003 Rain May and Captain Daniel by Catherine Bateson

2002 Blat Magic by Michael Stephens

2001 Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks

2000 The Family Tree by Jane Godwin

1999 Unseen by Paul Jennings

Young Adult Book Award

2011 Being Here by Barry Jonsberg

2010 Drink the Air by Richard Yaxley

2009 A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard

2008 Requiem for a Beast by Matt Ottley

2007 One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke

2006 The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky

2005 Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman

2004 How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray

2003 Boys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen

2002 When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak

Science Writers – Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation Award

2011 Voyage to the Planets – Episodes 1, 2 and 3 – Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, Richard Smith

2010 Catching Cancer, Sonya Pemberton

2009 Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, The Australasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins

2008 Why is Uranus Upside Down? (and other Questions about the Universe) by Professor Fred Watson

2007 Crude by Dr Richard Smith

2006 Good Health in the 21st Century by Dr Carole Hungerford

2005 Stem Cells by Elizabeth Finkel

2004 Genius of Junk by Sonya Pemberton

Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award

2011 Starlight: 150 poems, John Tranter

2010 Apocrypha, Peter Boyle

2009 The Striped World by Emma Jones

2008 Typewriter Music by David Malouf

2007 The Passenger by Dr Laurie Duggan

2006 The New Arcadia by Professor John Kinsella

2005 The Ship by Sarah Day

2004 Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge

Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

2011 Reading Madame Bovary, Amanda Lohrey

2010 Little White Slips, Karen Hitchcock

2009 The Boat by Nam Le

2008 Someone Else by John Hughes

2007 Every Move You Make by David Malouf

2006 A Funny Thing Happened at 27 000 Feet by Craig Cormick

2005 Vincenzo's Garden by John Clanchy

2004 Mahjar by Eva Sallis

Literary Work Advancing Public Debate – the Harry Williams Award

2011 Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests, Anna Krien

2010 Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, Clive Hamilton

2009 Code of Silence by Sarah Ferguson

2008 In My Shoes by Quentin McDermott and Steve Taylor

2007 Jonestown by Chris Masters

2006 Asbestos House by Gideon Haigh

2005 Sickness in the System by Hedley Thomas

2004 The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark

2003 Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson

2002 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right by Robert Manne and Reconciliation: A Journey by Michael Gordon

2001 Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Peter Mares and Dossier Inside the ABC by David Fagan and Dossier Team

2000 Why Weren't We Told by Henry Reynolds

1999 The Moment the Laughter Died by Tony Koch

Film Script – the Pacific Film and Television Commission Award

2011 The Hunter, Alice Addison

2010 South Solitary, Shirley Barrett

2009 Mary and Max by Adam Elliot

2008 Prime Mover by David Caesar

2007 Lake Mungo by Joel Anderson

2006 Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer

2005 Little Fish by Jacquelin Perske

2004 Look Both Ways by Sarah Watt

2003 Japanese Story by Alison Tilson

2002 The Tracker by Rolf de Heer

2001 Rabbit-Proof Fence by Christine Olsen

2000 Praise by Andrew McGahan

1999 Two Hands by Gregor Jordan

Television Script – QUT Creative Industries Award

2011 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo – Part 2, Christopher Lee

2010 Sisters of War, John Misto

2009 False Witness by Peter Gawler

2008 Underbelly, Episode 7 – Wise Monkeys by Felicity Packard

2007 Bastard Boys by Sue Smith

2006 Unfolding Florence by Katherine Thomson

2005 RAN: Remote Area Nurse – Episode 5 – Blue Hawaii by Sue Smith

2004 The Cooks – Episode 12, Series 1 – Honey and Wounds by Blake Ayshford

Drama Script (Stage) Award

2011 Life Without Me, Daniel Keene

2009 Realism by Paul Galloway

2008 When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell

2007 Embers by Campion Decent

2006 Mrs Petrov's Shoe by Noelle Janaczewska

2005 Black Hands/Dead Section by Van Badham

2004 Run Rabbit Run by Alana Valentine

2003 Last Cab to Darwin by Reg Cribb

2002 Old Masters by Beatrix Christian

2001 Meat Party by Duong Le Quy

2000 Box the Pony by Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin

1999 Who's Afraid of the Working Class by Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas

Encouragement and Development Prize

2005 The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary

References

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Wikipedia

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