Australian Literary Awards: Queensland Literary Awards
Lists of award-winning authors and their works for 12 major Australian literary awards.
Prize for Fiction: 1979 to present
2024 – Sharlene Allsopp - The Great Undoing
2023 – Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
2022 – Michael Mohammed Ahmad - The Other Half of You
2021 – Nardi Simpson - Song of the Crocodile
2020 – Mirandi Riwoe - Stone Sky Gold Mountain
2019 – Carrie Tiffany - Exploded View
2018 – Kim Scott – Taboo
2017 – Melissa Ashley - The Birdman's Wife
2016 – Georgia Blain - Between a Wolf and a Dog
2015 – Joan London - The Golden Age
2014 – Richard Flanagan - Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013 – Melissa Lucashenko - Mullumbimby
2012 – Frank Moorhouse - Cold Light
2011 – Amanda Lohrey - Reading Madame Bovary
2010 – J.M. Coetzee - Summertime
2009 – Richard Flanagan - Wanting
2008 – Helen Garner - Spare Room
2007 – Alexis Wright - Carpentaria
2006 – Brian Castro - The Garden Book
2005 – Tim Winton - The Turning
2004 – J.M Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello
2003 – Janette Turner Hospital - Due Preparations For The Plague
2002 – Venero Armanno - The Volcano
2001 – Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 – Thea Astley - Drylands
1999 – Les Murray - Freddy Neptune
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry: 1997 - present
2024 – LK Holt - Three Books
2023 – Lionel Fogarty - Harvest Lingo
2022 – Pam Brown - Stasis Shuffle
2021 – Ouyang Yu - Terminally Poetic
2020 – Pi.O - Heide
2019 – Alison Whittaker - Blakwork
2018 – Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
2017 – Antigone Kefala - Fragments
2016 – David Musgrave - Anatomy of Voice
2015 – Les Murray - Waiting for the Past
2014 – David Malouf - Earth Hour
2013 – John Kinsella - Jam Tree Gully
2012 – Peter Rose - Crimson Crop
2011 – John Tranter - Starlight: 150 poems
2010 – Peter Boyle - Apocrypha
2009 – Emma Jones - The Striped World
2008 – David Malouf - Typewriter Music
2007 – Laurie Duggan - The Passenger
2006 – John Kinsella - The New Arcadia
2005 – Sarah Day - The Ship
2004 – Judith Beveridge - Wolf Notes
2003 – Emma Lew - Anything the Landlord Touches
2002 – Alan Wearne - The Lovemakers
2001 – Brook Emery - And Dug My Fingers Into Sand
2000 – Luke Davis - Running with the Light
1999 – Anthony Lawrence - Skinned by Light
1997 – Emily Ballou - Enter
About the Queensland Literary Award
The Queensland Literary Awardscontinues the important tradition of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards that began in 1999 and ceased in 2012 when state government pulled funding.
Steele Rudd Award for Stort Stories: 1988 - present
2024 – John Morrissey - Firelight
2023 – Katerina Gibson - Women I Know
2022 – Tony Birch - Dark as Last Night
2021 – Laura Elvery - Ordinary Matter
2020 – Joey Bui - Lucky Ticket
2019 – Debra Adelaide - Zebra: And Other Stories
2018 – Jennifer Down – Pulse Points
2017 – Kyra Giorgi - The Circle and the Equator
2016 – Elizabeth Harrower - A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories; Fiona McFarlane - The High Places