The poet’s premier’s award for The Jaguar, a collection about the death of her father, follows Stella prize win earlier this year
, detailing the neglect and abuse her father suffered in a Queensland nursing home.
The awards were established in 2015, after the Queensland premier’s literary awards were abolished by the then premier Campbell Newman. The prizes are now administered by the State Library of Queensland. Also among this year’s winners is Alexis Wright, who won the $15,000 fiction category for her epic novel. The Waanyi author previously won the fiction category of the QPLAs for Carpentaria in 2007 and the nonfiction category of the QLAs for Tracker in 2018.
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