2009 Literary Awards shortlist

Winners are indicated in bold.

Fiction Book Award

• Wanting by Richard Flanagan
  Random House Australia (KNOPF)
• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
  Text Publishing
• The Boat by Nam Le
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• Ransom by David Malouf
  Random House Australia (KNOPF)
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
  Allen & Unwin

Non-Fiction Book Award

• Gough Whitlam by Jenny Hocking
  Melbourne University Publishing
• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson
  IAD Press
• Shadowed Days by Garry Kinnane
  Clouds of Magellan
• Manning Clark: A Life by Brian Matthews
  Allen & Unwin

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award

A winner and a publishing contract will not be awarded this year. The four short-listed authors in this category will be participating in an editorial development program worth $20,000. The Queensland Writers Centre will oversee the program.

• Bone Mother by Pamela S. Douglas
• The Knock Knock by Rachel Rutter
• Off the Grid by Inga Simpson
• Young Liars and Other Stories by Chris Somerville

Unpublished Indigenous Writer - Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award

• Which Way? by John Davis
• Aprons and Stock-whips by Alfa Emily Geiszler and Maryann Lazarus
• Magpies by Jeanine Leane
• Only a Bridge by Ngitji Ngitji Mona Tur
• The Boundary by Nicole Watson

Film Script - Pacific Film and Television Commission Award

• Cedar Boys by Serhat Caradee
  Cedar Boys Pty Ltd
• Mary and Max by Adam Elliot
  Melodrama Pictures Pty Ltd
• The Last Ride by Mac Gudgeon
  Last Ride Pty Ltd
• Mao's Last Dancer by Jan Sardi
  Last Dancer Pty Ltd

Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award

• False Witness by Peter Gawler
  Screentime Pty Ltd
• K9 - Regeneration - Episode 1 by Shane Krause and Shayne Armstrong
  Metal Mutt Productions Pty Ltd
• East West 101 - Just Cargo - Episode 9 by Michelle Offen
  Knapman Wyld Television Pty Ltd
• Underbelly - A Tale of Two Cities - Judas Kiss - Episode 9 by Felicity Packard
  Screentime Pty Ltd
• My Place - 1978 - Mike by Nicholas Parsons
  Chapman Pictures Pty Ltd

Drama Script (Stage) Award

• Realism by Paul Galloway
  Currency Press
• Frankenstein by Lally Katz
• The Great by Tony McNamara
  Currency Press
• The Modern International Dead by Damien Millar
  Currency Press
• The Messenger: The Play by Ross Mueller
  Currency Press

Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award

• Aria by Sarah Holland-Batt
  University of Queensland Press
• The Striped World by Emma Jones
  Faber and Faber
• Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography by John Kinsella
  University of Queensland Press
• The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea
  Giramondo Publishing

Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

• Her Father's Daughter by John Clanchy
  University of Queensland Press
• The Rip by Robert Drewe
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• The Bird in the Egg and Other Stories by Steve Holden
  Ginninderra Press
• The Boat by Nam Le
  Penguin Group (Australia)

Children's Book - Mary Ryan's Award

• Possum and Wattle: My Big Book of Australian Words by Bronwyn Bancroft
  Little Hare Books
• Little Blue by Gaye Chapman
  Little Hare Books
• The Camel Who Crossed Australia by Jackie French
  HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch
  Allen & Unwin
• Pearl Verses the World by Sally Murphy and Heather Potter
  Walker Books Australia

Young Adult Book Award

• Into White Silence by Anthony Eaton
  Random House Australia
• The Beginner's Guide to Living by Lia Hills
  Text Publishing
• Sprite Downberry by Nette Hilton
  HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• My Candlelight Novel by Joanne Horniman
  Allen & Unwin
• A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard
  Allen & Unwin

Science Writer Award

• Small Wonders: how microbes rule our world by Idan Ben-Barak
  Scribe Publications
• Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, The Australasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins
  Random House Australia (Vintage)
• Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of our World by Graeme Taylor
  New Society Publishers
• Hendra and the bats by Ian Townsend
  ABC Radio National

History Book - Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award

• The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen by Warwick Anderson
  The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg
  Pan Macmillan Australia
• Travels in Atomic Sunshine by Robin Gerster
  Scribe Publications
• Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe
  HarperCollins Publishers Australia

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

• The Drugs Scourge by Michael Crutcher and Matthew Fynes-Clinton
  The Courier-Mail
• Code of Silence by Sarah Ferguson
  ABC Four Corners
• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
  Penguin Group (Australia)
• Quarterly Essay - Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention by Paul Toohey
  Black Inc.
• Crisis for Children by Ian Townsend
  ABC Radio National

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