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- 2017 Premier’s Literary Prizes
- 2015 Premier’s Literary Prizes
- 2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes winners
- 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes winners
- 2009 Tasmania Book Prize winners
- 2007 Tasmania Book Prize winners
2017 Premier’s Literary Prizes
Tasmania Book Prize – for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre
Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor, published by Melbourne University Press
Margaret Scott Prize – for best book by a Tasmanian writer
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose, published by Allen & Unwin
University of Tasmania Prize – for the best new unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer
Brodsky Dies by Adam Ouston
Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship – this award was supported by private philanthropists and is awarded to a young writer (aged 35 years and under)
Erin Hortle
2015 Premier’s Literary Prizes
Tasmania Book Prize – for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford (New South Publishing)
Margaret Scott Prize – for best book by a Tasmanian writer
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Random House Australia)
University of Tasmania Prize – for the best new unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer
Soon by Lois Murphy
Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship – this award was supported by private philanthropists and is awarded to a young writer (aged 35 years and under)
Robbie Arnott
2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes winners
The Tasmania Book Prize – for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce (Black Ink)
The Margaret Scott Prize – for best book by a Tasmanian writer
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson (Allen & Unwin)
The University of Tasmania Prize – For the best new unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer
Kubla, Katherine Johnson
This manuscript was published as The Better Son by Ventura Press in 2016.
2011 Tasmania Book Prizes winners
The Tasmania Book Prize – for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre
Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Random House, 2008)
The Margaret Scott Prize – for best book by a Tasmanian writer
What Now, Tilda B? by Kathryn Lomer (University of Queensland Press, 2010)
The University of Tasmania Prize – for the best book by a Tasmanian publisher
Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight (Pardalote Press, 2008)
2009 Tasmania Book Prize winners
The Tasmania Book Prize – best book with Tasmanian content in any genre
Van Diemen’s Land by James Boyce (Black Inc., 2008)
The Margaret Scott Prize – best book by a Tasmanian Writer
Closing Hell’s Gates: the Death of a Convict Station, by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Allen & Unwin, 2008)
The University of Tasmania Prize – best book by a Tasmanian publisher
Antarctic Eye: the Visual Journey by Lynne Andrews (Studio One, 2007)
2007 Tasmania Book Prize winners
Tasmania Book Prize – for the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre.
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare (Knopf, 2004)
Margaret Scott Prize – for the best book by a Tasmanian writer
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (Picador, 2004)
University of Tasmania Prize – for the best book by a Tasmanian publisher
The Art of Apple Branding: Australian Apple Case Labels and the Industry Since 1788 by Christopher Cowles and David Walker (Apples from Oz, 2005)