The winners of the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Brisbane last night. The winners were:
Fiction Book Award
Wanting by Richard Flanagan, Random House Australia (Knopf)
Non-Fiction Book Award
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper, Penguin Group (Australia)
Unpublished Indigenous Writer - Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award
The Boundary by Nicole Watson
Film Script - Pacific Film and Television Commission Award
Mary and Max by Adam Elliot, Melodrama Pictures Pty Ltd
Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award
False Witness by Peter Gawler, Screentime Pty Ltd
Drama Script (Stage) Award
Realism by Paul Galloway, Currency Press
Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
The Striped World by Emma Jones, Faber and Faber
Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
The Boat by Nam Le, Penguin Group (Australia)
Children's Book - Mary Ryan's Award
Little Blue by Gaye Chapman, Little Hare Books
Young Adult Book Award
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard, Allen & Unwin
Science Writer Award
Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, The Australasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins, Random House Australia (Vintage)
History Book - Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award
Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - The Harry Williams Award
Code of Silence by Sarah Ferguson, ABC Four Corners
There was also the "Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award" on the shortlists but which doesn't seem to have been awarded. I can't determine if it was, but the information has not been released, or if none of the manuscripts were considered worthy of the award.
You can read the "Courier-Mail's" response to the awards and the full shortlists.
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