Previous winners
View the previous winners of the Queensland Premier's Literary awards for the:
- Fiction Book Award
- Emerging Queensland Author—Manuscript Award
- Unpublished Indigenous Writer—Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award
- Non-Fiction Book Award
- History Book—Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award
- Children's Book—Mary Ryan's Award
- Young Adult Book Award
- Science Writer Award
- Poetry Collection—Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Australian Short Story Collection—Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
- Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate—The Harry Williams Award
- Film Script—Screen Queensland Award
- Television Script—QUT Creative Industries Award
- Drama Script (Stage)—Griffith University Creative Writing Program Award
- Encouragement and Development Prize
Fiction Book Award
- 2010 Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
- 2009 Wanting by Richard Flanagan
- 2008 The spare room by Helen Garner
- 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 Fredy Neptune by Les Murray
Emerging Queensland Author— Manuscript Award
- 2010 RPM by Noel Mengel
- 2009 No winner awarded in this category
- 2008 Omega park by Amy 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 Nicole Bourke
- 1999 Shoelaces by Jillian Watkinson
Unpublished Indigenous Writer—Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award
- 2010 Purple threads by Jeanine Leane
- 2009 The boundary by Nicole Watson
- 2008 Every secret thing by Marie Munkara
- 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
- 2010 The blue plateau: a landscape memoir by 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—Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award
- 2010 Sydney Harbour: A history by Ian Hoskins
- 2009 Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe
- 2008 Drawing the global colour line by Professor Marilyn Lake and Professor Henry Reynoldss
- 2007 Iron kingdom 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 John Curtin: a life by David Day
- 1999 The sky travellers by Bill Gamage
Children's Book—Mary Ryan's Award
- 2010 Toppling by Sally Murphy
- 2009 Little blue by Gaye Chapman
- 2008 The peasant prince by Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas
- 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 Martine 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
- 2010 Drink the air by Richard Yaxley
- 2009 A small free kiss in the dark by Glenda Millard
- 2008 Requiem for a beast by Matt Ottley
- 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 Award
- 2010 Catching cancer by 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
- 2010 Apocrypha by Peter Boyle
- 2009 The striped world by Emma Jones
- 2008 Typewriter music by David Malouf
- 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
- 2010 Little white slips by Karen Hitchcock
- 2009 The boat by Nam Le
- 2008 Someone else by John Hughes
- 2007 Every move you make by David Malouf
- 2006 A funny thing 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
- 2010 Requiem for a species: why we resist the truth about climate change by 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
- 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—Screen Queensland Award
- 2010 South solitary by Shirley Barrett
- 2009 Mary and Max by Adam Elliot
- 2008 Prime mover by David Caesar
- 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
- 2010 Sisters of war by 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
- 2010 Whore by Rick Viede
- 2009 Realism by Paul Galloway
- 2008 When the rain stops falling by Andrew Bovell
- 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
