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Queensland Premier's Literary awards


Past winners

2008 Literary Awards Banner

Fiction Book Award

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 FreddyNeptune by Les Murray


Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award

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 Nicole Bourke
1999 Shoelaces by Jillian Watkinson



Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award

2007 Skin Paintings 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


Non-Fiction Book Award

2007  

Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctia 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

2007 Iron Kingdon by Christopher Clark
2006 Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins by 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 Richard Bosworth
2002 Gallipoli by Les Carlyon

2001

The Colonial Earth by Tim Bonyhady
2000 JohnCurtin: A Life by David Day
1999 The Sky Travellers by Bil Gammage



Children's Book Award - Mary Ryan's Award

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 Marine 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

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 Writer Book Award

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

2007 The Passenger by Dr Laurie Duggan
2006 The New Arcadia by John Kinsella
2005 The Ship by Sarah Day
2004 Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge


Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

2007 Every Move you Make by David Malouf
2006 A Funny Things Happened at 27 000 Feet... by Craig Cormick
2005 Vincenzo's Garden by John Clanchy
2004 Mahjar by Eva Sallis


Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - the Harry Williams Award

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
2001

Reconciliation: A Journey by Michael Gordon
and
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

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

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 - Ep 12. Series 1 - Honey and Wounds by Blake Ayshford


Drama Script (Stage) Award

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


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