Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Winners. Shortlists.

The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and bligh_anna have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225 000 in prize money offered across 14 categories: Fiction Book Award $25 000 - Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award $20 000- Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award $15 000 - History Book Award $15 000 Non-Fiction Book Award $15 000 - Children's Book - The Dymocks Literacy Foundation Award $15 000 - Young Adult Book Award $15 000 - Science Writer Department of State Development Award $15 000 - Poetry Collection Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award $15 000 - Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award $15 000 - Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - The Harry Williams Award $15 000 - Film Script - Pacific Film & Television Commission Award $15 000 - Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award $15 000 - Drama Script (Stage) Award$15 000.

Seek Books maintains a stock of many winning titles back to 1999 which is most helpful if you missed past winners.

2008 Award Winners

Garner wins Qld Premier's literary prize

September 17th- Melbourne author, screen writer and journalist Helen Garner has taken out the top prize at this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.

Garner won $25,000 for her novel The Spare Room. Earlier this month Garner took top honours at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for the same book, winning the $30,000 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.

ottley_matt Matt Ottley's (left- he looks like such a nice young man) Requiem for a Beast, which generated a deal of controversy after being awarded a Children's Book Council of Australia prize for Picture Book of the Year, got the Premier's Literary Awards $15,000 prize for the Young Adult Book Award. A degree of bad language in the book means it is a bit difficult to place as far as readership is concerned; young adults are best able to cope it seems!

The Peasant Prince, by Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas picked-up yet another literary award winning the Children's Book Category.

Longer Commentary Book Award Tragic Blog>>

The winners were:

Fiction Award Winner: (details)
Title: The Spare Room
Author: Helen Garner

Non Fiction Book Award (details)
Title: Muck
Author: Craig Sherborne

requiem_for_a_beast Young Adult Book Award (details)
Title: Requiem for a Beast
Author: Matt Ottley

Children's Book: The Peasant Prince, by Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas. (details)

Science Writer Award: Why is Uranus Upside Down? And other questions about the Universe, by Professor Fred Watson; (details)

Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate: 'In My Shoes', by Quentin McDermott and Steve Taylor, screened on ABC telev peasnat_prince ision's Four Corners; (details)

Film Script – Pacific Film & Television Commission Award: 'Prime Mover', by David Caesar; (details)

Drama Script (Stage) Award: 'When the Rain Stops Fallin', by Andrew Bovell; (details)

Television Script – QUT Creative Industries Award: 'Underbelly, Episode 7', by Felicity Packard; (details)

History Book: Drawing the Global Colour Line, by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds; (details)

Poetry Collection: Typewriter Music, by David Malouf; (details)

Australian Short Story: "Someone Else", by John Hughes; (details)

Emerging Queensland Author: Omega Park, by Amy Vought Barker; (details)

Unpublished Indigenous Writer: Every Secret Thing, by Marie Munkara; (details)

2008 Young Adult Book Award

Title: Requiem for a Beast
Author: Matt Ottley
Interweaving stories and time zones contrast the stark realities of the contemporary outback environment with the brutal behaviour of previous generations of non-Indigenous people in their dealings with Indigenous people in cattle country. Ottley manages to convey both physical violence and subtle emotional resonance here, in a story which 'pulls no punches' but does not overtly preach. It's a work that will move the reader/listener to tears. This story is about an unnamed boy, and his battle with himself. He's failed his father's expectations, learned a secret which has caused him to doubt his father, and has also begun to question society's beliefs, suspecting that he must battle them, too. The beast the boy eventually pursues is a metaphor for both the boy's inner feelings, and the wider conflict explored here, between man's baser nature and his capacity for humane actions.

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Fiction Book Award

Title: The Spare Room
Author: Helen Garner
Helen Garner's novel is ostensibly about death and dying but it's also a story about friendship told with compassion, humour and occasionally, rage. Garner's balance of intellect and emotion makes this a particularly satisfying experience. Her prose is both rich and spare, harrowing and uplifting, devastating and heart-warming.

2008 Non Fiction Book Award

Title: Muck
Author: Craig Sherborne
This is the second of Sherbourne's memoirs of his family in which he creates two of the most memorable characters in memoir, his father and mother. He casts an adolescent's unsympathetic eye on his parents and their social pretensions in rural New Zealand and in Sydney racing circles, and from them makes a thought provoking entertainment for the reader.

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Children's Book - Mary Ryan's Award

Title: The Peasant Prince
Author: Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas
Adaptation of the well known story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin, who is plucked from a poor village in China to study ballet at the Chinese National Ballet Academy and goes on to become a world renowned ballet star

Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award
Title: Every Secret Thing
Author: Marie Munkara
Every Secret Thing is rough, tough and uncompromising its satirical portrayal of the Bush Mob and the Mission Mob, the hidden, the subversive, the literal and the human realities of lives intertwined and emphatically lived. Interwoven into a seamless fabric are the threads of social and cultural dominance, submission and subversion, religious and not so religious agendas, biting wit and riotous humour. Set in the Carpentaria Gulf region of northern Australia, the stories are inspired by events and attitudes characteristic of the mission era, but defy temporal categorisation, stepping across time into every time since and beyond.

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Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award

Title: Typewriter Music
Author: David Malouf
Typewriter Music confirms David Malouf's eminence in Australian poetry. His verse combines dream-like meditation with a vividly sensual apprehension of concrete natural and human worlds and their interplay. Transgressions of boundaries, unexpected connections and continuities - all are explored with exquisite linguistic playfulness and a concern to illuminate the creative process, the music of breath, love and silences that only poetic language can approach.

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Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

Title: Someone Else
Author: John Hughes
This work is a sophisticatedly conceived and beautifully written exploration of creativity. The preface, an imaginary encounter between Max Brod and an Australian, canvasses the essential issues of the book: the relationship between writer and text; between our lives and our representations of our lives; the nature of a book; the engagement we call "reading". In doing so it provides an expanded notion of the implications of translation. Each of the individual story/essays enters the life of a major creative figure. They are full of surprises as readers we are engaged by these engagements made by the author.

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Film Script - Pacific Film & Television Commission Award

Title: 'Prime Mover'
Author: David Caesar
This film takes on one of the most iconic Australian cultures - the truckies - and goes all out. The script is a highly imaginative, headlong telling of a young man with a talent for art who has never stuck to anything and is finally drawn back into his Dad's world of trucks. Eventually he takes on the massive debt and workload of buying and running his own truck, and from there his perfect world soon collapses into a vortex of unpayable debt, impossible delivery schedules, drugs and crime. The script plunges us into the nightmare, often hallucinogenic world of this long distance truckie and the impossible pressures of his life. It uses animation in parts to give us a glimpse of the way the young man sees the world, and lets us share his visions. In the end, despite the collapse of his dreams and his business, he finds a way to take a kind of mad revenge, but his escape is really no escape, and the new road he and his young wife then take is itself almost a dream. This is a strong script that lurks in some of the same shadow worlds we see in The Cars That Ate Paris and Wake In Fright, but brings us a whole new world beyond those films.

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Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award

Title: Underbelly, Episode 7 - Wise Monkeys
Author: Felicity Packard
This series is based solidly on the gang war and killings in Melbourne and it sticks close to the original events but takes the audiences to places they could never have gone from the news reports, close to the bone. We sit right inside their bizarre, ordinary, terrifying, monstrous, humorous, appalling world, barely believing what we see unfold. The one thing that becomes clear in this series is how ambition to succeed at all cost, considered such a virtue in other walks of life, can take on such horror in their world, such ordinary horror. The characterisation is strong, the structure outstanding, the dialogue often a revelation, and the plotting comes courtesy of reality. The script takes us into the minds of the women who associated with the criminals and the compromises they were prepared to make to sustain their lifestyles. Felicity Packard is a fine writer who has created a very believable world filled with surprisingly likeable monsters and their women.

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Science Writer

Title: Why is Uranus Upside Down? And other questions about the Universe
Author: Professor Fred Watson
Fred Watson's personable and witty style gives the non-expert reader easy access to the potentially dry topics of the astronomy and astrophysics, covering historical discoveries and current space research. A focus on some of the quirkiest questions posed on Professor Watson's radio show over the years and a willingness to explore sometimes offbeat perceptions about space and astronomy makes this a delightfully engaging book - backed by a serious depth of scientific knowledge.

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

Title: Drawing the Global Colour Line
Author: Professor Marilyn Lake and Professor Henry Reynolds
Drawing the Global Colour Line shows that Australian attempts to define and defend 'whiteness' through the infamous white Australia policy were in the vanguard of a global movement towards racial exclusion. Instead of a narrow national story, Lake and Reynolds focus on the interplay of attitudes, ideas and policies across the English-speaking world - Britain, North America, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand - that saw notions of democratic equality and racial difference translate into racist policies of segregation, deportation and white privilege. As English speaking supremacy appeared to be threatened by immigration, 'coloured labour' and the rise of Asian powers, Lake and Reynolds show how the Australian experience intersected with similar fears and anxieties elsewhere to shape fundamentally the race relations and politics of the twentieth century. A wealth of detail, often personalised or anecdotal, brings the argument to life and links local issues and developments to global patterns of identity and power. A wonderfully ambitious book, superbly researched and elegantly argued, Drawing the Global Colour Line refreshes and re-casts our sense of one of the great injustices of the modern age.

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

Title: 'In My Shoes'

Author: Quentin McDermott and Steve Taylor
Family carers have learned they must become a lobby group. This documentary shows with confronting clarity their public and political emergence born of desperation for more funding, more support, more acknowledgment and a far bigger say in Government policy affecting the future of the children and loved ones for whom they have given over their lives. Many struggle financially, but together they save the taxpayer around $31 billion a year as they respond day in, day out to the needs of a close family member often profoundly disabled - cleaning, feeding, toileting, lifting, calming and cuddling. This documentary takes viewers into their lives, into their increasingly desperate and weary daily struggle, into a world in which they have been robbed of independence. It provides an understanding of the issue they worry most about: future care if they are unable to continue and presents a convincing case for recognition.

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Drama Script (Stage) Award

Title: 'When the Rain Stops Falling'
Author: Andrew Bovell
This elegant, beautifully crafted play strikes a rare balance between plotting a path through a complex mystery and using poetic means to do it. What results seems part theatre, part music, and part architecture. Through a sequence of settings that merge like variations on a theme we travel backwards and forwards in time, drawing more texture and story to the centre each time, tightening the knot that begins to slowly form around the necks of the key characters, closing in on the truth, without losing track or traction. Through a kind of gestural repetition fragment after fragment emerges and the story haltingly unfolds. We gradually learn that this family has been torn apart but by unknown forces. We unearth an abducted child, abuse, a father who disappeared long ago, and all that pain. And yet they persist, meeting in and out of time to eat together, to talk, to just be together. Also, another depth that may well be new in world theatre lies behind and under this play.

The writer has used the changed world climate of the future itself as a poetic framework, without question and without urgency, as unquestioned as climate has always been to the species until now, a return to an ancient faith. The pace of the work is such that everything, even each character, seems to be stunned by the inevitability of it all. What is left to them is to keep on within this routine that changes without entirely changing. Ultimately this is a play that is not simply about grief - it embodies grief, carried in the incessant rain.

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Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
Title: Omega Park
Author: Amy Vought Barker
Amy Vought Barker takes a social milieu under-represented in Australian fiction and presents a confronting tale of heartbreak and redemption within it. In Omega Park, a fictional housing commission estate on the geographical margins of Queensland's Gold Coast, 14-year-old Dingo Patterson and 17-year-old Jacob Box are growing up and trying to survive. Surrounded by broken families, crime and desperation, they are young men with dreams of a different life. Dingo wants to be a professional surfer and Jacob wants to prove himself to his girlfriend Johanna, who has grown up in a more privileged environment. But their lives are forever changed by a dramatic event at the outset of the novel.

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Queensland Premiers 2008 Shortlists

Non Fiction Book Award

Arthur Boyd, Dr Darleen Bungey (Allen & Unwin)

An Exacting Heart, Jacqueline Kent, (Penguin Group)

Muck, Craig Sherborne, (Black Inc)

American Journeys, Don Watson, (Random House (KNOPF))

Fiction Book Award

His Illegal Self, Peter Carey, (Random House (KNOPF))

Diary of a Bad Year, J.M Coetzee, (Text Publishing)

The Trout Opera, Matthew Condon, (Random House (Vintage))

The Spare Room, Helen Garner, (Text Publishing)

Breath, Tim Winton, (Penguin Group Australia)

Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award

Event, Judith Bishop, Salt Publishing/Inbooks)

Bark, Anthony Lawrence , (University of Queensland Press)

Typewriter Music, David Malouf, (University of Queensland Press)

The Australian Popular Songbook, Alan Wearne (Giramondo Publishing

Children's Book - Mary Ryan's Award

Jessica's Box,, Peter Carnavas, (New Frontier Publishing)

The Peasant Prince, Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas, (Penguin Group Australia)

Collecting Colour, Kylie Dunstan, (Lothian Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Livre Australia)

Crow and The Waterhole, Ambelin Kwaymullina, (Fremantle Press)

The Worry Tree, Marianne Musgrove (Random House)

Young Adult Book Award

Requiem for a Beast, Matt Ottley, (Lothian Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Livre Australia)

Marty's Shadow, John Heffernan, (Omnibus Books)

The Push, Julia Lawrinson, (Penguin Group Australia)

Town, James Roy, (University of Queensland Press)

At Seventeen, Celeste Walters, (University of Queensland Press)

2008 Shortlist Science Writer Award

Applying the paradox of prevention: Eradicate HIV, Bill Bowtell, (Griffith Review)

Hail Caesar, Professor Caroline de Costa (Boolarong Press)

Cool Scientist, Stephen Luntz, (Control Publications)

The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, Dr Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mikhal A. Fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey and Guy M. Narbonne (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Why is Uranus Upside Down? And other questions about the Universe, Professor Fred Watson
(Allen & Unwin)

History Book - Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award

Van Diemen's Land, James Boyce, (Black Inc)

Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, Professor John Fitzgerald, (University of New South Wales Press Limited)

Vietnam The Australian War, Paul Ham, (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)

An Exacting Heart, Jacqueline Kent, (Penguin Group)

Drawing the Global Colour Line, Professor Marilyn Lake and Professor Henry Reynolds, (Melbourne University Publishing)

Australian Short Story - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

Someone Else, John Hughes (Giramondo Publishing)

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Kathryn Lomer, (University of Queensland Press)

'Redfin', Anthony Lynch, (ARCADIA)

The End of the World, Paddy O'Reilly, (University of Queensland Press)

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

People Like Us, Waleed Aly, (Pan Macmillan Australia)

John Winston Howard, Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, (Melbourne University Publishing)

No Jail for Rape of Girl, 10, Tony Koch (The Australian)

Quarterly Essay Issue 27: 'Reaction Time', Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe
(Quarterly Essay)

'In My Shoes', Quentin McDermott and Steve Taylor, (Four Corners, The ABC)

Film Script - Pacific Film & Television Commission Award

'Elise', James Bogle, (Film 2 Opportunity)

' Prime Mover', David Caesar, (Porchlight Films)

' The Square', Joel Edgerton and Matthew Dabner, (Film Depot)

'Punishment', Danny Matier, (Glover Productions)

Drama Script (Stage) Award

' When the Rain Stops Falling', Andrew Bovell, (Scott Theatre)

' Ruben Guthrie', Brendan Cowell, (Company B)

'Toy Symphony', Michael Gow, (Belvoir Street Theatre - B Sharp)

'The Serpent's Teeth', Daniel Keene, (Sydney Theatre Company)

The Seed, Kate Mulvany, (Belvoir Street Theatre - B Sharp)

Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award

'Bed of Roses', Jutta Goetze and Elizabeth Coleman
(Ruby/Southern Star Ent. Pty. Ltd)

'Underbelly, Episode 7- Wise Monkeys' Felicity Packard, (Screentime)

'Stupid, Stupid Man, Episode 9 - The Black Dog', Timothy Pye, (Jigsaw Entertainment)

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award

- None of the Other Flies Follow My Crooked Lines, Simon Groth

- Side Close Side; Stories of Love, Krissy Kneen

- Learning how to Breathe, Linda Neil

- Omega Park, Amy Vought Barker

Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award

- 10 Hail Mary's, Kate Howarth

- White Elephant, Jeanine Leane

- Every Secret Thing, Marie Munkara

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2007 Winners Queensland Premier's Literary Awards

Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award
Title: Skin Paintings
Author: Elizabeth Eileen Hodgson -
A structured collection of poetry considering the nature of memory and its historical and emotional resonance. Explores themes of art, identity, sexuality, separation and loneliness.

Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award duggan_laurie
Title: The Passenger
Author: Dr Laurie Duggan (right)
'The Passenger' contains a concentrated dose of the features which have made the poetry of Laurie Duggan fascinating for more than thirty years. There is a dispassionate approach to both the self and the world which is unusual in poetry and very unusual in Australian poetry. And this unusualness makes it stimulating. Here we have a poet who moves through the world observing carefully and asking what is the meaning of what he sees and what are the cultural structures which have produced it. 'The Passenger' takes us through British Columbia, Greece, southern counties of England, the US and, of course, in Duggan's continuing "Blue Hills" series, Australia. The entire project requires great sensitivity to place and culture, ambition and a good deal of wry humour.

Australian Short Story Collection

malouf_david David Malouf (left) - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
Title: Every Move You Make
Author: David Malouf
Shorter fiction has always been David Malouf's strength in prose and this, his third collection of stories, is his finest so far. The settings range from the local to the exotic, but there is a unifying strategy to these stories: small moments of insight or recognition that alter whole perspectives of being. Malouf avoids fashionable cynicism and despair to focus on those brief moments that are ultimately life-enhancing. A haunting and masterly book. back to top

Non Fiction Book Award
Title: Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
Author: Professor Tom Griffiths
In the summer of 2002-3 Tom Griffiths joined the voyage to re-provision Australia's Antarctic base at Casey. His engaging book mixes diary entries from that trip with rich accounts of the material and natural history of the continent and of earlier explorations. Griffiths writes charming and informative narratives of human experience on a continent ruled by wind and central to our understanding of the world's climate. This is an innovative and relevant book from a social and environmental historian who also knows how to write for a broad audience.

History Book Award
Title: Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
Author: Christopher Clark
Original, brave, confident and extremely thorough. It has a light touch and almost conversational tone, despite the deep and impressive scholarship. It achieves an impressive depth of analysis, extends our understanding of its subject matter, doesn't accept the standard interpretations, and has a strong body of research underpinning it.

Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - The Harry Williams Award
Title: Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones
Author: Chris Masters (below right) MASTERS_CHRIS
The unauthorised biography of Alan Jones is much more than a biography; it is a critical examination of the way media power can be used and abused in the hands of a dominating broadcaster to lobby, hector, criticise, flatter, cajole or demand. The book sparked controversy even before publication after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which commissioned it, abandoned it on questionable grounds. Chris Masters says one of the roles of journalism is to air unpalatable truths. He has done so in an extraordinarily well-documented examination and presentation of the intersection of populism and politics in which he discusses the good, the bad and the paradoxes of Australia's most powerful broadcaster. back to top

Children's Book Award -The Dymocks Literacy Foundation Award
Title: Layla, Queen of Hearts (Kingdom of Silk)
Author: Glenda Millard (right)
A lyrical text filled with the celebration of life. Glenda Millard's refreshi millard_glenda ngly real characters are written with understated style, and sensitive observation. A delightful story of unexpected friendship. From Nell's perfect funeral lamingtons, to the capital letters of OCCASION of Saturday breakfast in the household of the 'kingdom of Silk' and the making of memories?throughout it all, Layla is indeed the Queen of Hearts.

The light use of chapter illustrations is in perfect unison with the text. Characters are depicted with whimsy, and a suggestive use of line like the faded hearts and thin velvet ribbon on Layla's dress.

Young Adult Book Award
Title: One Whole and Perfect Day
Author: Judith Clarke
In this novel the author Judith Clarke has constructed an extraordinary conflation of characters, and ideas about family, written in her own inimitable style. Warm and moving, the novel details 'sensible' Lily's sudden and overwhelming desire for 'one whole and perfect day' with her family and her loved ones around her. In the process, a number of other people find their way to her grandparents' home, and a number of threads in a number of lives are woven marvellously together in a breathtakingly emotional denouement. This novel creates a gallery of characters who are linked in strange and magical ways.

Science Writer - Department of State Development Award
Title: Crude
Author: Dr Richard Smith
Addresses a topic of great significance in today's world; brings a fresh approach to the issues; script engages the reader and the viewer with its breezy but content rich style.

Joel Anderson Film Script - Pacific Film and Television Commission Award
Title: 'Lake Mungo'
Author: Joel Anderson
It is rare to see an Australian film that captures the idioms of mystery and social comment with the complexity and sophistication we see in this script. It is even rarer to see a screen drama that is plotted and executed in the documentary style, and makes integral use of a range of visual mediums in the telling of the story. It may be a ghost story, or it may not.

Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award
Title: 'Bastard Boys'
Author: Sue Smith
This mini series by a past winner of the Premier's Literary Award for Television tells the story of the Waterfront Dispute on Patrick's docks around Australia in 1988, and the political and social upheaval it brought to this country.

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Campion Decent Drama Script (Stage) Award
Title: 'Embers'
Author: Campion Decent
This exceptional piece of verbatim theatre dramatises participants' responses to and memories of the calamitous 2003 bush fires in northern Victoria. It produces a beautifully interwoven texture of voices, emotions, opinions and stories of the experiences and thoughts of those who were affected by the fires. In the course of the play we here the voices of residents, volunteers, dope growers, parks officers, politicians, wildlife workers, and panel of the Commonwealth House of Representatives Select Committee Report.

Fiction Book Award
Title: Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright's second novel is a major achievement, a tour de force of operatic, at times surreal, storytelling. Not since Xavier Herbert's Capricornia has there been a book like this, one that can truly claim to capture the soul of Australia's north. Wright's daring fictional experiment has paid off in a unique work that encompasses Aboriginal myth, custom and history and contemporary Australian history. It's a wise, witty, at times almost picaresque, epic that is searingly honest and occasionally withering in its assessment of Australian society. But is also an optimistic book.

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
Title: Life in the Bus Lane
Author: Ian Commins
'Life in the Bus Lane' introduces us to five very different characters, all going about their daily lives in Brisbane: a Romanian migrant cellist, a middle-aged financial services worker, a young drug addict, an arrogant university graduate, and a Greek single mother. We are drawn into their daily lives - to their family dramas, their career crisis, their relationship challenges, their dreams and their losses.

Past Winners 1999 to present

Seek Books maintains a stock of many winning titles back to 1999 which is most helpful if you missed past winners. Go to Queeensland Premier's Award page at Seek Books.

Fiction Book Award

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 by Les Murray

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
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: 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
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
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
2006 Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins by Dr Peter Edwards
2005 The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White and Graham White
2004 Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen
2003Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane History S.)by Professor Richard 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 Bil Gammage

Children's Book Award - The Dymocks Literacy Foundation Award
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 & 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
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: (Cba Honour Book 2002 Older Readers) by Markus Zusak

Science Writer - Department of State Development Award
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
2006 New Arcadia Poems by John Kinsella
2005 The Ship by Sarah Day
2004 Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge

Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
2006 A Funny Thing Happened at 27 000 Feet... by Craig Cormick
2005 Vincenzo's Garden and Other Plots by John Clanchy
2004 Mahjar by Eva Sallis

Literary Work Advancing Public Debate - the Harry Williams Award
2006 Asbestos House by Gideon Haigh
2005 Sick to Death: A Manipulative Surgeon and a Healthy System in Crisis-A Disaster Waiting to Happen by Hedley Thomas
2004 The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark
2003 Dark Victory: How a Government Lied Its Way to Political Triumph by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
2002 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right by Robert Manne
2001 Reconciliation: A Journey (Reportage S.) by Michael Gordon
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Borderline: Australia's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa by Peter Mares
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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
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
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
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