2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist
The following works have been shortlisted for the 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
Find out more about the awards.
View the winners of the 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
Shortlist categories
- 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- Unpublished Indigenous Writer—Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award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
- Drama Script (Stage)—Griffith University Creative Writing Program Award
- Television Script—QUT Creative Industries Award
Fiction Book Award
- Geraldine Brooks for Caleb’s Crossing
HarperCollins Publishers Australia - Amanda Lohrey for Reading Madame Bovary
Black Inc. - Peter Rose for Roddy Parr
HarperCollins Publishers Australia - Kim Scott for That Deadman Dance
Pan Macmillan Australia - Ouyang Yu for The English Class
Transit Lounge Publishing
Emerging Queensland Author—Manuscript Award
- Andrea Dudley for from winter or river
- Annah Lee Faulkner for The Beloved
- Bruce Nash for Empty Beach
- Sally Piper for At Mother’s Elbow
- Ross Watkins for The Arc
Unpublished Indigenous Writer—Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award
- Dylan Coleman for Clear water white death: STORM ON THE HORIZON
- Dylan Coleman for ‘Mazin’ Grace
- Brenda Saunders for Skin Deep
Non-Fiction Book Award
- John Bradley for Singing saltwater country: journey to the songlines of Carpentaria
Allen & Unwin - David Hicks for Guantanamo: my journey
Random House Australia - Anna Krien for Into the Woods: The battle for Tasmania's forests
Black Inc. - Maggie MacKellar for When it rains: a memoir
Random House Australia - Mark McKenna for An eye for eternity: the life of Manning Clark
The Miegunyah Press
History Book—Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award
- Tim Bonyhady for Good Living Street: the fortunes of my Viennese family
Allen & Unwin - Emma Christopher for A merciless place: the lost story of Britain's convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the settlement of Australia
Allen & Unwin - Alan Powell for Northern voyagers: Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history
Australian Scholarly Publishing - Penny Russell for Savage or civilised?: manners in colonial Australia
University of New South Wales Press - Martin Thomas for The many worlds of R.H. Mathews: in search of an Australian anthropologist
Allen & Unwin
Children's Book—Mary Ryan's Award
- Michael Gerard Bauer for Just a dog
Omnibus Books - Christine Bongers for Henry Hoey Hobson
Random House Australia - Luke Edwards for The staring owl
Omnibus Books - Elizabeth Fensham for Bill Rules
University of Queensland Press - Tina Matthews for Waiting for Later
Walker Books Australia
Young Adult Book Award
- Cath Crowley for Graffiti moon
Pan Macmillan Australia - Ursula Dubosarsky for The golden day
Allen & Unwin - Belinda Jeffrey for Big river, little fish
University of Queensland Press - Barry Jonsberg for Being here
Allen & Unwin - Mark Svendsen for To Die For
Woolshed Press
Science Writer Award
- Jo Chandler for Feeling the Heat
Melbourne University Press - Richard Smith for Voyage to the Planets—Episodes 1, 2 and 3 (Mars, Jupiter and Saturn)
Essential Media and Entertainment - Cheryll Williams for Medicinal plants in Australia: Volume 1 bush pharmacy
Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd - John Wrigley and Murray Fagg for Eucalypts: a celebration
Allen & Unwin
Poetry Collection—Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Caroline Caddy for Burning bright
Fremantle Press - Barry Hill and John Wolseley for Lines for birds: poems & paintings
UWA Publishing - Ann Shenfield for You can get only so close on Google Earth
Australian Scholarly Publishing - John Tranter for Starlight: 150 poems
University of Queensland Press
Australian Short Story Collection—Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
- Patrick Holland for The source of the sound
Salt Publishing - Amanda Lohrey for Reading Madame Bovary
Black Inc. - Wayne Macauley for Other stories
Black Pepper Publishing - Emmett Stinson for Known unknowns
Affirm Press
Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate—The Harry Williams Award
- Anna Krien for Into the Woods: the battle for Tasmania's forests
Black Inc. - David Marr for Quarterly Essay 38: Power trip—the political journey of Kevin Rudd
Black Inc. - George Megalogenis for Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit—leadership and the end of the reform era
Black Inc. - Victoria Midwinter Pitt for Leaky Boat
Matchbox Pictures - Lindsay Tanner for Sideshow:dumbing down democracy
Scribe Publications
Film Script—Screen Queensland Award
- Alice Addison for The Hunter
Porchlight Films - Beck Cole for Here I Am
Scarlett Pictures Pty Ltd - Shaun Grant for Snowtown
Warp Films Australia
Drama Script (Stage) Award—Griffith University Creative Writing Program Award
- David Burton for April’s Fool
Playlab Press - Jonathan Gavin for Bang
- Declan Greene for Moth
- Daniel Keene for Life without me
Currency Press Pty Ltd - Alana Valentine for Head Full of Love
Television Script—QUT Creative Industries Award
- Wain Fimeri for Charles Bean's great war
360 Degree Films - Jonathan Gavin for Offspring—Episode 109
Southern Star John Edwards - Christopher Lee for Paper giants: the birth of Cleo —Part 1
Southern Star John Edwards - Christopher Lee for Paper giants: the birth of Cleo—Part 2
Southern Star John Edwards - Michael Miller for East West 101—the hero's standard (Season 3, Episode 14)
East West 101 Season 3 Pty Limited
