The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing. The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election. In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award and the Unpublished Indigenous Writer, David Unaipon Award. Fiction Book Award 2011 Reading Madame Bovary, Amanda Lohrey 2010 Summertime, J. M. Coetzee 2009 Wanting by Richard Flanagan 2008 The Spare Room by Helen Garner 2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright 2006 The Garden Book by Brian Castro 2005 The Turning by Tim Winton 2004 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee 2003 Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital 2002 The Volcano by Venero Armanno 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 2000 Drylands by Thea Astley 1999 Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award 2011 The Beloved, Annah Faulkner 2010 RPM, Noel Mengel 2009 No Award. The prize was shared between four shortlisted authors: Inga Simpson, Rachel Claire, Chris Somerville and Pamela Douglas. Extracts from the shortlisted works were published in the 09:05 issue of Perilous Adventures: The Writer's Magazine. 2008 Omega Park by Amy Vought Barker 2007 Life in the Bus Lane by Ian Commins 2006 The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee 2005 The Long Road of the Junkmailer by Patrick Holland 2004 An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang 2003 The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Kimberley Starr 2002 The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton 2001 Mama Kuma: One Woman, Two Cultures by Deborah Carlyon 2000 The Bone Flute by Nike Bourke 1999 Shoelaces by Jillian Watkinson Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award 2021 Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 (Notes For