Miles Franklin Award

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The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879 – 1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (published in 1901) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award.[1] As of 2008, the award is worth AU$42,000.[2]

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[edit] Winners

1988 - Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.

[edit] Shortlisted Works

Shortlisted titles are only shown for the years 1987 onwards. No record has yet been found for any shortlists being released prior to that year. Winners are listed in bold type.

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2001

Note: Matthew Kneale's novel is the first by a non-Australian to be shortlisted for the award. Hannie Rayson's, Life after George, is the first play to be shortlisted.

2000

Note: Dorothy Porter's What a Piece of Work is the first verse novel to be shortlisted.

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1988 Note: Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was made in this year.

1987

[edit] Longlisted Works

Longlisted titles are only shown for the years 2005 onwards. That was the first year that such a list was released by the judging panel. The number of works included on the longlist varies from year to year.

2008

2007

2006

2005

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Australia).
  2. ^ Five authors make Miles Franklin shortlist, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 17, 2008.

[edit] See also