Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced

The winners of this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Queensland on 9 October.

The winners in each category are:

Fiction

Nonfiction

• The Bush (Don Watson, Hamish Hamilton)

Young adult

• The Pause (John Larkin, Random House)

Children’s

• A Single Stone (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)

History

• ANZAC: The Unauthorised Biography (Carolyn Holbrook, NewSouth)

Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

• Merciless Gods (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

• Waiting for the Past (Les Murray, Black Inc.)

Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance

• Warrior (Libby Connors, A&U)

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards

• Megan McGrath
• Rebecca Jessen

David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer

• ‘The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child’ by Andrew Booth

Emerging Queensland Writer Manuscript Award

• ‘Aurora’ by Elizabeth Kasmer 

The People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

• On the Road… with Kids (John Ahern, Macmillan).

The winners were chosen from the shortlists announced in September.

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, which recognises ‘writing with a Queensland focus, celebrating important Queensland authors, stories, history and voices’; and two $12,500 Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards for 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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