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Queensland Literary Awards 2015 shortlists announced

Friday, 11 September 2015   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction

  • A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey, Black Inc.)
  • The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage)
  • The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw, Text)
  • The Wonder Lover (Malcolm Knox, A&U)
  • To Name Those Lost (Rohan Wilson, A&U)

 

Nonfiction

  • Mannix (Brenda Niall, Text)
  • The Bush (Don Watson, Hamish Hamilton)
  • The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism (Anne Manne, MUP)
  • The Wife Drought (Annabel Crabb, Ebury)
  • Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather (Karen Lamb, UQP)

 

Young adult

  • Are You Seeing Me? (Darren Groth, Woolshed Press)
  • Razorhurst (Justine Larbalestier, A&U)
  • The Minnow (Diana Sweeney, Text)
  • The Pause (John Larkin, Random House)
  • Vanishing Point (Jeri Kroll, Puncher & Wattman)

 

Children’s

  • A Single Stone (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)
  • Figgy in the World (Tasmin Janu, Omnibus)
  • Lucky (David Mackintosh, HarperCollins)

 

History

  • ANZAC: The Unauthorised Biography (Carolyn Holbrook, NewSouth)
  • Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Angela Woollacott, OUP)
  • The Invisible History of the Human Race (Christine Kenneally, Black Inc.)
  • Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia (Agnieszka Sobocinska, NewSouth)
  • Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy (Sophie Cunningham, Text)

 

Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

  • Arms Race: And Other Stories (Nic Low, Text)
  • Bapo (Nick Jose, Giramondo)
  • Heat and Light (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)
  • Merciless Gods (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)
  • Three Stories (J M Coetzee, Text)

 

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

  • Beds for All Who Come (Susan Bradley Smith, Five Islands Press)
  • Net Needle (Robert Adamson, Black Inc.)
  • Open House (David Brooks, UQP)
  • The Guardians (Lucy Dougan, Giramondo)
  • Waiting for the Past (Les Murray, Black Inc.)

 

Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance

  • Heat and Light (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)
  • Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar (Zoe Boccabella, ABC Books)
  • Queensland: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask (Mark Bahnisch, NewSouth)
  • Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival (Anna Bligh, HarperCollins)
  • Warrior (Libby Connors, A&U)

 

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards

  • Andrew McMillen
  • Megan McGrath
  • Michelle Law
  • Rebecca Jessen
  • Sam George-Allen

 

David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer

  • ‘The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child’ by Andrew Booth
  • ‘Social Consciousness Series’ by Mayrah Yarragah Dreise 
  • ‘A Question of Colour’ by Patricia Lees with Adam C Lees 

 

Emerging Queensland Writer Manuscript Award

  • ‘Araluen’ by Imogen Smith
  • ‘Aurora’ by Elizabeth Kasmer 
  • ‘Sargasso’ by K W George 
  • ‘Wool Spin Burn’ by Kate Elkington. 

 

The shortlist for the Courier-Mail 2015 People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award was announced in August.

The winners in each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on 9 October.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, this year’s awards include two new categories supported by the Queensland government. The $25,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance will ‘recognise writing with a Queensland focus, celebrating important Queensland authors, stories, history and voices’, while two $12,500 Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards will be presented to Queensland writers aged 18-30.

The QLAs are managed by the State Library of Queensland, which took over from the volunteer QLA Committee in 2014. For more information about the awards, visit the website here. 

 

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