The shortlists for the Queensland Literary Awards for 2012 have been announced. Here are the nominees!
Fiction book award
- The Chemistry of Tears (Peter Carey, Penguin)
- All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin)
- Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text)
- Autumn Laing (Alex Miller, A&U)
- Cold Light (Frank Moorhouse, Random House)
Science writer award
- Seduced by Logic (Robyn Arianrhod, UQP)
- Gone Viral (Frank Bowden, UNSW Press)
- Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll (Rob Brooks, UNSW Press)
- Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide (Richard Smith, ABC Books)
Nonfiction book award
- The People Smuggler (Robin De Crespigny, Penguin)
- Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U)
- Riding the Trains in Japan (Patrick Holland, Transit Lounge)
- Worse Things Happen at Sea (William McInnes & Sarah Watt, Hachette)
- Her Father’s Daughter (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)
Emerging Queensland author – manuscript award
- Scratches on the Surface (Aaron Smibert)
- Home Mechanics (Luke Thomas)
- Island of the Unexpected (Catherine Titasey)
- Hidden Objects (Ariella Van Luyn)
David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer
- Story (Siv Parker)
- Hard (Ellen van Neerven-Currie)
- My Journey that May Never End (Dorothy Williams-Kemp)
The Harry Williams Award for a literary or media work advancing public debate
- Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future (Paul Cleary, Black Inc.)
- The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times(George Megalogenis, Penguin)
- There Goes the Neighbourhood (Michael Weley, UNSW Press)
Judith Wright Calanthe Award – poetry collection
- The Welfare of My Enemy (Anthony Lawrence, Puncher & Wattman)
- Outside (David McCooey, Salt Publishing)
- Late Night Shopping (Rhyll McMaster, Brandl & Schlesinger)
- Crimson Crop (Peter Rose, UWA Publishing)
- The Yellow Gum’s Conversion (Simon West, Puncher & Wattman)
History book award
- Seduced by Logic (Robyn Arianrhod, UQP)
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia(James Boyce, Black Inc.)
- The Biggest Estate on Earth (Bill Gammage, A&U)
- The Censor’s Library (Nicole Moore, UQP)
Children’s book award
- The Horses Didn’t Come Home (Pamela Rushby, HarperCollins)
- Brotherband 1: The Outcasts (John Flanagan, Random House)
- Look a Book! (Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
- Ten Blue Wrens (Elizabeth Honey, A&U)
- Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers (Briony Stewart, UQP)
Young adult book award
- Night Beach (Kirsty Eagar, Penguin)
- The Ink Bridge (Neil Grant, A&U)
- Three Summers (Judith Clarke, A&U)
- Sea Hearts (Margo Lanagan, A&U)
- All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
The Steele Rudd Award for an Australian short story collection
- Silence (Rodney Hall, Murdoch Books)
- Shooting the Fox (Marion Halligan, A&U)
- In the Shade of the Shady Tree (John Kinsella, Swallow Press, Ohio University Press)
- The Weight of a Human Heart (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.)
- Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, HarperCollins)
Television script award
- The Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3 (Blake Ayshford, Matchbox Pictures)
- The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3 (Brendan Cowell, Matchbox Pictures)
- Strange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3 (Anthony Mullins, Hoodlum Active)
- Mabo (Sue Smith, Blackfella Films)
- Dance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24 (Liz Doran, Werner Films)
Drama script (stage) award
- War Crimes (Angela Betzien)
- Bloodland (Wayne Blair)
- Taxi (Patricia Cornelius)
- Baby Teeth (Rita Kalnejais)
- A Golem Story (Lally Katz)
Film script award
- Dead Europe (Louise Fox, See-Saw Films)
- Being Venice (Miro Bilbra, Dragon Net Films)
- Rarer Monsters (Shane Armstrong & S P Krauss)
- Save Your Legs (Brendan Cowell, Robyn Kershaw Productions).
