The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of
literary awards
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. M ...
inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing.
The awards were established by
Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952) is an Australian former politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland, in office from 1998 to 2007. He was the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), Labor Party ...
, the then
Premier of Queensland
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ...
in 1999 and abolished by Premier
Campbell Newman
Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Quee ...
, shortly after winning the
2012 Queensland state election
The 2012 Queensland state election was held on 24 March 2012 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament.
The Labor Party (ALP), led by Premier Anna Bligh, was defeated by the opposition Liberal National Pa ...
.
In response, the Queensland writing community established the
Queensland Literary Awards
The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs ...
to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and
University of Queensland Press
Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house.
Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...
committed to continue to publish the winners of the Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award and the Unpublished Indigenous Writer, David Unaipon Award.
Fiction Book Award
*2011 ''
Reading Madame Bovary'',
Amanda Lohrey
*2010 ''
Summertime'',
J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in ...
*2009 ''
Wanting'' by
Richard Flanagan
*2008 ''
The Spare Room'' by
Helen Garner
Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, ''Monkey Grip (novel), Monkey Grip'', published in 1977, immediately established her as an origina ...
*2007 ''
Carpentaria
''Carpentaria acuminata'' (carpentaria palm), the sole species in the genus ''Carpentaria'', is a Arecaceae, palm native to tropical coastal regions in the north of Northern Territory, Australia.
It is a slender palm, growing to tall in the g ...
'' by
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel '' Carpentaria'' and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" ...
*2006 ''
The Garden Book
''The Garden Book'' is a 2005 novel by Australian author Brian Castro.
Epigraph
::O where is the garden of Being that is only known in Existence
::As the command to be never there, the sentence by which
::Alephs of throbbing fact have been ban ...
'' by
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist.
Biography
Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He was Chair of Creative Writing (2008-2019) at the University of Adelaide and Di ...
*2005 ''
The Turning'' by
Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles ...
*2004 ''
Elizabeth Costello
'' Elizabeth Costello'' is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.
In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, a celebrated aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of ...
'' by
J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in ...
*2003 ''Due Preparations for the Plague'' by
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South ...
*2002 ''The Volcano'' by
Venero Armanno
*2001 ''
True History of the Kelly Gang
''True History of the Kelly Gang'' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize an ...
'' by
Peter Carey
*2000 ''
Drylands
Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water. Drylands are zones where precipitation is balanced by evaporation from surfaces and by transpiration by plants (evapotranspiration). The United Nations Environment Program defines drylands as tropical ...
'' by
Thea Astley
Thea Beatrice May Astley (25 August 1925 – 17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin ...
*1999 ''
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse'' by
Les Murray
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award
*2011 ''
The Beloved'',
Annah Faulkner
Annah Faulkner (1949/1950 – 8 March 2022) was an Australian novelist.
At the age of five, Faulkner moved with her parents to Papua New Guinea and later lived on Queensland's Sunshine Coast with her husband. She died in March 2022, after lea ...
*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
*2021 ''Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 (Notes For Song) 1970-2020'', Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams
*2020 ''The Space Between the Paperbark'', Jazz Money
*2018 ''The Making of Ruby Champion'',
Kirstie Parker
*2017 ''Mirrored Pieces'', Lisa Fuller
*2016 ''Dancing Home'', Paul Collis
*2015 ''The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child'', Andrew Booth
*2014 ''It’s Not Just Black and White'', Lesley and Tammy Williams
*2013 ''Heat and Light'',
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Aboriginal Australian author, educator and editor. They are queer and non-binary. Their first work of fiction, ''Heat and Light'' (2013), won several awards, and in 2019 Van Neerven won the Queensland Premier ...
*2011 ''
Mazin Grace'',
Dylan Coleman
*2010 ''
Purple Threads
''Purple Threads'' is a 2011 short story collection by Jeanine Leane. Based on Leane's childhood, the stories are about Sunny, a Wiradjuri girl, growing up in the Gundagai district during the 1960s and 1970s.
Contents
* Women and Dogs in a Wor ...
'',
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
Yvette Henry Holt (born 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian poet, essayist, academic, researcher and comedian, of the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman nations of Queensland. She came to prominence with her first published collection of poetry, ''Anonym ...
*2004 ''Dust on Waterglass'' by
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book ''The Yield''.
Biography
Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia in 1983. Her father is from the Wi ...
(published as ''Swallow the Air'')
*2003 ''Whispers of This Wik Woman'' by
Fiona Doyle
*2002 ''Home'' by
Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Yasmin Behrendt (born 1969) is an Australian legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate. she is a professor of law and director of research and academic programs at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education ...
*2001 ''The Mish'' by
Robert Lowe
Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, GCB, PC (4 December 1811 – 27 July 1892), British statesman, was a pivotal conservative spokesman who helped shape British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William E ...
*2000 ''Bitin' Back'' by
Vivienne Cleven
*1999 ''Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight'' by
Samuel Wagan Watson
Samuel Wagan Watson is a contemporary Indigenous Australian poet.
Early life
Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane and is of Mununjali clan, Munanjali and Germanic descent. His father is the novelist and political activist, Sam Watson (act ...
*1998 ''Is That You Ruthie?'' by
Ruth Hegarty
Ruth Hegarty (born 1929, in Mitchell, Queensland) is an Aboriginal Elder and author.
Hegarty is well known for her non-fiction novels that document her personal history as one of the Stolen Generation. Her first book, ''Is That You Ruthie?'', i ...
*1997 ''When Darkness Falls'' by
John Bodey
John Bodey (15492 November 1583) was an English Roman Catholic academic jurist and lay theologian. He was martyred in 1583, and beatified in 1929.
Life
John Bodey was born in Wells, Somerset, in 1549. His father was a wealthy merchant. He stud ...
*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
Philip McLaren (born 1943) is an Aboriginal Australian author and academic known for literary fiction, detective stories and thrillers.
Biography
McLaren is an Aboriginal Australian of the Kamilaroi people. Both of his parents, who have some S ...
*1991 ''Broken Dreams'' by
Bill Dodd
William Joseph Dodd (November 25, 1909 – November 16, 1991) was an American politician who held five positions in the Louisiana state government in the mid-20th century, including state representative, lieutenant governor, state auditor, pre ...
*1990 ''Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter'' by
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Doris Pilkington Garimara (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author.
Garimara wrote ''Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence'' (1996), a story about the stolen generation, and base ...
*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
Mark Tredinnick (born 1962) is an Australian poet, essayist and teacher. Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2012. He is the author of thirteen books, including four vo ...
*2009 ''
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island'' by
Chloe Hooper
Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.
Her first novel, ''A Child’s Book of True Crime'' (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to rep ...
*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
Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in creating the Aboriginal art of the Western Desert movement.
Bardon studied law for three years at the University of Sydney, b ...
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
Brenda Niall
Dr Brenda Mary Niall (born 25 November 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers. Educated at Genazzano FCJ College, ...
*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
Jillian Isobel Roe, (10 November 1940 – 12 January 2017) was an Australian historian and academic, who wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin.
Early life and education
Roe was born in 1940, at Tumby Bay, South A ...
*2008 ''Drawing the Global Colour Line'' by
Professor Marilyn Lake and
Professor Henry Reynolds
*2007 ''Iron Kingdom'' by
Christopher Clark
Sir Christopher Munro Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, he was knighted for his servi ...
*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
Inga Clendinnen, (; 17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation a ...
*2003 ''Mussolini'' by Professor
R. J. B. Bosworth
*2002 ''Gallipoli'' by
Les Carlyon
Leslie Allen Carlyon (10 June 1942 – 4 March 2019) was an Australian writer and newspaper editor.
Early life
Carlyon began his career in journalism with ''The Herald and Weekly Times'' as a cadet on the ''Sun News-Pictorial'' (now the ''H ...
*2001 ''The Colonial Earth'' by
Tim Bonyhady
*2000 ''John Curtin: A Life'' by
David Day
*1999 ''The Sky Travellers'' by
Bill Gammage
William Leonard Gammage (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU).
Gammage was born in Orange, New South Wales, ...
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
Li Cunxin (born 26 January 1961) is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer turned stockbroker. He is currently the artistic director of the Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, Australia.Queensland Ballet (2012)Li Cunxin returns to the stage ...
and
Anne Spudvilas
*2007 ''Layla Queen of Hearts'' by
Glenda Millard
Glenda Millard is an Australian writer of children's literature and young adult fiction.
Biography
Millard was born in Victoria, Australia. Her first work was published in 1999 by Margaret Hamilton Books, entitled ''Unplugged!''. In 2003 she ...
*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
Carole Wilkinson (born 1950) is an Australian writer, best known for '' Dragonkeeper'' (2003).
Career
Wilkinson was born in Derby, England. The family emigrated to Australia when she was 12 in 1963. She worked as a laboratory assistant until ...
*2003 ''Rain May and Captain Daniel'' by
Catherine Bateson
Catherine Bateson (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian writer.
Career
Born in Sydney in 1960, Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art h ...
*2002 ''Blat Magic'' by
Michael Stephens
*2001 ''Fox'' by
Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild (born 1948) is an Australian children's writer. She has written more than 40 books for children. Her work has been published around the world and has won several awards. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Childre ...
and
Ron Brooks
Ron Brooks (born October 16, 1988) is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in fourth round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU. He has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and San Di ...
*2000 ''The Family Tree'' by
Jane Godwin
Jane Godwin (born 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian author, and is a publisher at Penguin Books Australia for children and young adult books.
Godwin has sole-authored fifteen books which have been published internationally, and she ...
*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
Glenda Millard is an Australian writer of children's literature and young adult fiction.
Biography
Millard was born in Victoria, Australia. Her first work was published in 1999 by Margaret Hamilton Books, entitled ''Unplugged!''. In 2003 she ...
*2008 ''Requiem for a Beast'' by
Matt Ottley
*2007 ''One Whole and Perfect Day'' by
Judith Clarke
*2006 ''The Red Shoe'' by
Ursula Dubosarsky
Ursula Dubosarsky (born ''Ursula Coleman''; 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and comic voice of both clarity and ambiguity. She ha ...
*2005 ''Secret Scribbled Notebooks'' by
Joanne Horniman
Joanne Horniman (born 1951) is an Australians, Australian author who has won several awards for her books for children, teenagers and young adults. Her novels often set in country New South Wales, and often deal with such themes as the search f ...
*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
Richard Smith
*2006 ''Good Health in the 21st Century'' by
Carole Hungerford
*2005 ''Stem Cells'' by
Elizabeth Finkel
Elizabeth "Ella" Finkel AM (née Sher) is a multi-award-winning Australian science journalist, author and communicator. A former biochemist, she has been broadcast on ABC Radio National, and written for publications such as Science, The Lance ...
*2004 ''Genius of Junk'' by
Sonya Pemberton
Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
*2021 ''Terminally Ill'',
Ouyang Yu
*2020 ''Heide'',
Pi O
П. O. (or Pi O, born 1951) is a Greek-Australian, working class, anarchist poet.
Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the family moved to t ...
*2019 ''Blakwork'',
Alison Whittaker
*2018 ''I Love Poetry'',
Michael Farrell
*2017 ''Fragments'',
Antigone Kefala
*2016 ''Anatomy of Voice'',
David Musgrave
*2015 ''Waiting For the Past'',
Les Murray
*2014 ''Earth Hour'',
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...
*2012 ''Crimson Crop'',
Peter Rose (poet)
Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor. For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of '' Australian Book Review''.
Career
Peter Rose was born in Wangarat ...
*2011 ''Starlight: 150 poems'',
John Tranter
*2010 ''Apocrypha'',
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. Known as a character actor, he played Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof ''Young Fra ...
*2009 ''The Striped World'' by
Emma Jones
*2008 ''Typewriter Music'' by
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...
*2007 ''The Passenger'' by
Laurie Duggan
Laurence James Duggan (born 1949), known as Laurie Duggan, is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.
Life
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Sc ...
*2006 ''The New Arcadia'' by
Professor John Kinsella
*2005 ''The Ship'' by
Sarah Day
*2004 ''Wolf Notes'' by
Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.
Biography
Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She ...
Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
*2021 ''Ordinary Matter'', Laura Elvery
*2020 ''Lucky Ticket'', Joey Bui
*2019 ''Zebra'',
Debra Adelaide
Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.
Biography
Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire. A contemporary of writers ...
*2018 ''Pulse Points'',
Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel ''Bodies of Light''.
Biography
Down was in born 1990.
She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying ...
*2017 ''The Circle and the Equator'',
Kyra Giorgi
Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian.
Early life and career
Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western Australia—her mother is the novelist Gail Jones. Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University in 2012 with ...
*2016 ''A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories'',
Elizabeth Harrower and ''The High Places'',
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her book ''The Night Guest'' and her collection of short stories ''The High Places''. She is a recipient of the Voss Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing a ...
*2015 ''Merciless Gods'',
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...
*2014 ''Only the Animals'',
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey (born 1980) is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author. In 2009 she was named a 5 under 35 nominee by the National Book Foundation and in 2020 won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.
Early year ...
*2013 ''Like A House On Fire'',
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.
Life and career
Kennedy graduated from the University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. She is the author of the hi ...
*2012 ''Forecast: Turbulence'',
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South ...
*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
David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...
*2006 ''A Funny Thing Happened at 27 000 Feet'' by
Craig Cormick
*2005 ''Vincenzo's Garden'' by
John Clanchy
*2004 ''Mahjar'' by
Literary Work Advancing Public Debate – the Harry Williams Award
*2012 ''
The Australian Moment
''The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times'' is a 2012 Australian economics book by George Megalogenis. It explains how Australia has been able to weather recent world economic problems relatively unscathed.
Reception
Dennis Altm ...
'',
George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis (born 1964)Bryant, NickGeorge Megalogenis ''Aesop Register'', 2013. is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.
Early life
Born in Melbourne, Megalogenis attended Melbourne High School and went on to study e ...
*2011 ''Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests'',
Anna Krien
Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet.
Career
Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including ''The'' ''Monthly'', ''The Age'', ''The Big Issue'', ''The Best Australia ...
*2010 ''
Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change'',
Clive Hamilton
Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles ...
*2009 ''Code of Silence'' by
Sarah Ferguson
*2008 ''In My Shoes'' by
Quentin McDermott and
Steve Taylor
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*2007 ''Jonestown'' by
Chris Masters
Christopher Todd Mordetzky (born January 8, 1983) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) under the ring name Chris Adonis as a member of Strictly Business. He is a former two-time National Ch ...
*2006 ''Asbestos House'' by
Gideon Haigh
Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is an English-born Australian journalist and non-fiction author who writes about sport (especially cricket), business and crime in Australia. He was born in London, was raised in Ge ...
*2005 ''Sickness in the System'' by
Hedley Thomas
Hedley Thomas is an Australian investigative journalist and author, who has won seven Walkley Awards, two of which are Gold Walkleys.
Personal life
Thomas is married and lives in Brisbane. He has two children. In 2002 Thomas and his family we ...
*2004 ''The History Wars'' by
Stuart Macintyre
Stuart Forbes Macintyre (21 April 1947 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian historian, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1999 to 2008. He was voted one of Australia's most influential historians.
Early lif ...
and Anna Clark
*2003 ''Dark Victory'' by
David Marr and
Marian Wilkinson
Marian Wilkinson is an Australian journalist and author. She has won two Walkley Awards, and was the first female executive producer of Four Corners. She has been a deputy editor of the '' Sydney Morning Herald'', a Washington correspondent fo ...
*2002 ''In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right'' by
Robert Manne
Robert Michael Manne (born 31 October 1947) is an Emeritus Professor of politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading Australian public intellectual.
Background
Robert Manne was born in Melbo ...
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'' by Alice Addison
*2010 ''
South Solitary
''South Solitary'' is a 2010 Australian romance film set on South Solitary Island and directed by Shirley Barrett.
Plot
Meredith Appleton ( Miranda Otto) arrives on South Solitary island with her elderly uncle George Wadsworth (Barry Otto). H ...
'' by
Shirley Barrett
Shirley Barrett (1961 – 3 August 2022) was an Australian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. Her first film '' Love Serenade'' won the Caméra d'Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. She wrote and directed two other feature films '' Wal ...
*2009 ''
Mary and Max
''Mary and Max'' is a 2009 Australian independent stop-motion adult-animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and was his first animated feature film. The film was produced by Melanie Coombs and Melodrama Pictures with ...
'' by
Adam Elliot
*2008 ''
Prime Mover
Prime mover may refer to:
Philosophy
*Unmoved mover, a concept in Aristotle's writings
Engineering
* Prime mover (engine), motor, a machine that converts various other forms of energy (chemical, electrical, fluid pressure/flow, etc) into energy ...
'' by
David Caesar
David Caesar (born 1963) is an Australian television and film director and writer. He grew up in Turlinjah on the south coast of NSW and attended school in nearby Moruya where he was school captain in his senior year.
Caesar graduated from the A ...
*2007 ''
Lake Mungo
Lake Mungo is a dry lake located in New South Wales, Australia. It is about 760 km due west of Sydney and 90 km north-east of Mildura. The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park, and is one of seventeen lakes in the Wo ...
'' by
Joel Anderson
Joel Anderson (born February 11, 1960) is an American politician serving as a member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. A Republican, he is a former California state senator, assemblyperson, and board member of a municipal water di ...
*2006 ''
Ten Canoes
''Ten Canoes'' is a 2006 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starring Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling ...
'' by
Rolf de Heer
Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old.
*2005 ''
Little Fish'' by
Jacquelin Perske
Jacquelin Perske is an Australian screenwriter and producer who is best known as co-creator of the television series, ''Love My Way'' and for her screenplay for '' The Cry.''
Television adaptations
She wrote four of the six episodes of the 201 ...
*2004 ''
Look Both Ways'' by
Sarah Watt
Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 19584 November 2011) was an Australian film director, writer and animator.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne Film and Television School ( ...
*2003 ''
Japanese Story
''Japanese Story'' is a 2003 Australian romantic drama film directed by Sue Brooks. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company that ...
'' by
Alison Tilson
Alison may refer to:
People
* Alison (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Alison (surname)
Music
* ''Alison'' (album), aka ''Excuse Me'', a 1975 album by Australian singer Alison MacCallum
* "Alison" (song), song by El ...
*2002 ''
The Tracker'' by
Rolf de Heer
Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old.
*2001 ''
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from th ...
'' by
Christine Olsen
*2000 ''
Praise
Praise as a form of social interaction expresses recognition, reassurance or admiration.
Praise is expressed verbally as well as by body language (facial expression and gestures).
Verbal praise consists of a positive evaluations of another's a ...
'' by
Andrew McGahan
*1999 ''
Two Hands'' by
Gregor Jordan
Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director.
Jordan's films include '' Two Hands'' (1999), ''Buffalo Soldiers'' (2001), and '' Ned Kelly'' (2003).
''Two Hands'' won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and Best Sc ...
Television Script – QUT Creative Industries Award
*2011 ''
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo – Part 2'' by Christopher Lee
*2010 ''
Sisters of War
''Sisters of War'' is a telemovie based on the true story of two Australian women, Lorna Whyte, an army nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Catholic nun from New South Wales who survived as prisoners of war in Papua New Guinea during World War ...
'' by
John Misto
John Misto (born 13 October 1952) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of New South Wales, and then practised as a lawyer before changing his career to concentrate on working as a ...
*2009 ''
False Witness
''False Witness'', also known as ''The Diplomat'' internationally, is a two-part Australian television mini-series, produced by Screentime Australia, and broadcast simultaneously on the Australian subscription television channel UKTV (Australia ...
'' by
Peter Gawler
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
*2008 ''
Underbelly
Underbelly is the side of something that is not normally seen. Figuratively, it means a vulnerable or weak part, similar to the term Achilles' heel, or alternatively, a hidden, illicit side of society.
This term could refer to:
Business
* ...
, Episode 7 – Wise Monkeys'' by
Felicity Packard
*2007 ''
Bastard Boys
''Bastard Boys'' is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queens ...
'' by
Sue Smith Sue Smith may refer to:
* Sue Smith (politician) (born 1951), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
* Sue Smith (footballer) (born 1979), English footballer
* Sue Smith (trainer) (born 1948), British horse trainer
* Sue Smith (writer), Austra ...
*2006 ''
Unfolding Florence'' by
Katherine Thomson
*2005 ''
RAN: Remote Area Nurse – Episode 5 – Blue Hawaii'' by
Sue Smith Sue Smith may refer to:
* Sue Smith (politician) (born 1951), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
* Sue Smith (footballer) (born 1979), English footballer
* Sue Smith (trainer) (born 1948), British horse trainer
* Sue Smith (writer), Austra ...
*2004 ''
The Cooks
''The Cooks'' was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny ...
– Episode 12, Series 1 – Honey and Wounds'' by
Blake Ayshford
Blake Ayshford (born 15 April 1988) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a in the 2000s and 2010s.
He played for the Wests Tigers, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and New Zealand Warriors in the NRL.
Backgrou ...
Drama Script (Stage) Award
*2012/2013 ''Trollop'' by Maxine Mellor
*2011 ''Life Without Me'' by
Daniel Keene
*2009 ''Realism'' by Paul Galloway
*2008 ''
When the Rain Stops Falling
''When the Rain Stops Falling'' is a play about family, secret legacies, betrayal and forgiveness seen across four generations and spanning two continents. The drama had its world premiere as part of the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
It was wr ...
'' by
Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell (born 23 November 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.
Life
Bovell was born on 23 November 1962 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from t ...
*2007 ''Embers'' by
Campion Decent
*2006 ''Mrs Petrov's Shoe'' by
Noelle Janaczewska
Noelle or Noëlle is the feminine form of the gender neutral name Noel. It derives from the old French Noël, "Christmas," a variant (and later a replacement) of nael, which itself derives from the Latin natalis, "birthday". Other nicknames a ...
*2005 ''Black Hands/Dead Section'' by
Van Badham
Vanessa "Van" Badham (born 1974) is an Australian writer and activist. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the '' Guardian Australia'' website.
Early life
Badham was born in Sydney in 1974. ...
*2004 ''Run Rabbit Run'' by
Alana Valentine
Alana Valentine is an Australian playwright, dramatist, librettist and Director working in theatre, film, opera and television. As a playwright, she won the Helpmann Award. Valentine first worked with Vicki Gordon Music Productions to create the F ...
*2003 ''
Last Cab to Darwin'' by
Reg Cribb
Reginald Cribb is an Australian playwright and actor.
Early life
Cribb graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art at the University of New South Wales in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.
Plays ...
*2002 ''Old Masters'' by
Beatrix Christian
*2001 ''Meat Party'' by
Duong Le Quy
*2000 ''
Box the Pony
''Box the Pony'' is a 1997 play co-written by Australian actress Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin. It is a semi-autobiographical one-woman show, set in an Aboriginal community in Queensland. It has played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sy ...
'' by
Leah Purcell
Leah Maree Purcell (born 14 August 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist. She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's ''Somewhere in the Darkness'', which led to role ...
and
Scott Rankin
Scott Rankin (born 1959) is an Australian theatre director, writer and co-founder and creative director of the arts and social change company Big ''h''ART. Based in Tasmania, Rankin works in and with isolated communities and diverse cultural set ...
*1999 ''Who's Afraid of the Working Class'' by
Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell (born 23 November 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.
Life
Bovell was born on 23 November 1962 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from t ...
, Melissa Reeves,
Patricia Cornelius
Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.
Plays
Cornelius has written more than 20 plays, which include ''Slut'' (2008, Platform Youth Theatre), ''The Call'' (2009, Griffin Theatre Company), '' ...
and
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...
Encouragement and Development Prize
*2005 ''The Comfort of Figs'' by
Simon Cleary
References
External links
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2007 Qld Premier's Literary Award WinnersQueensland Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet (Retrieved 3 October 2007)
Premier Beattie Announces Winning Words in Rich Literary Awards (11 September 2007)Queensland Government, Ministerial Statements (Retrieved 7 October 2007)
Queensland Literary Awards
Australian fiction awards
Awards established in 1999
Awards disestablished in 2012
Australian non-fiction book awards
Australian history awards
1999 establishments in Australia
2012 disestablishments in Australia