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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David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer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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