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Unpublished Indigenous Writer - Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award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
Last reviewed: 19 August, 2009
Last updated: 21 August, 2009
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