Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist 2010
JA
August 17
Here are some of the titles nominated for this year’s Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. For the full shortlists, go here.
Fiction Book Award
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
Summertime J.M. Coetzee
88 Lines About 44 Women by Steven Lang
Lovesong by Alex Miller
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award
Down to the River by Matthew Lamb
The Desert of Paradise by Nikki McWatters
RPM by Noel Mengel
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award
ACES, DEUCES, KINGS and QUEENS by Sam Cook
The Red Earth by Tjanara Goreng-Goreng
Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane
Dingo finds a friend by Shawn Wondunna-Foley
Non-Fiction Book Award
Affection by Krissy Kneen
The Birth Wars by Mary-Rose MacColl
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin by Alasdair McGregor
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
Reading by Moonlight: How books saved a life by Brenda Walker
Young Adult Book Award
Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, illustrated by Keith Thompson
Drink the Air by Richard Yaxley
Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Apocrypha by Peter Boyle
Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
Ghostly Subjects by Maria Takolander
Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock
Gatherers and Hunters by Thomas Shapcott
The Window Seat by Archie Weller
Film Script – Screen Queensland Award
South Solitary by Shirley Barrett
Animal Kingdom by David Michôd
Beneath Hill 60 by David Roach
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