Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.
Fiction Book Award
Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
- 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Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award
- 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
- 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
Children's Book Award - Mary Ryan's Award
Young Adult Book Award
Science Writers - Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation Award
- 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
Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
Literary Work Advancing Public Debate - the Harry Williams Award
- 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
Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award
- 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
Encouragement and Development Prize
- 2005 The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary
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