Queensland Literary Awards 2013 winners announced
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced on 4 September during the Brisbane Writers Festival.
The winners in each of the book-related categories are:
Fiction book award
- Mullumbimby (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Nonfiction book award
- Boy, Lost (Kristina Olsson, UQP)
History book award
- The Flash of Recognition (Jane Lydon, NewSouth)
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a poetry collection
- Jam Tree Gully (John Kinsella, W W Norton)
Steele Rudd Award for an Australian short story collection
- Like a House on Fire (Cate Kennedy, Scribe)
Young adult book award
- A Corner of White (Jaclyn Moriarty, Macmillan)
Children’s book award
- Don’t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! (Narelle Oliver, Scholastic)
Emerging Queensland author manuscript award
- Gap (Rebecca Jessen)
David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer
- Heat and Light (Ellen Van Neervan)
Courier-Mail Queensland Book of the Year People’s Choice Award
- The Secret Keeper (Kate Morton (A&U).
The winners in each category received a cash prize of $5000, up from $1000 in 2012. To read the judges’ comments on the winning titles, visit the QLA website here. To see the shortlisted titles, click here.
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