Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.
Longlisted titles for the $60,000 prize are:
- Chinese Postman (Brian Castro, Giramondo)
- The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text)
- Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)
- Dirt Poor Islanders (Winnie Dunn, Hachette)
- Compassion (Julie Janson, Magabala)
- Politica (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
- Ghost Cities (Siang Lu, UQP)
- Highway 13 (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)
- The Degenerates (Raeden Richardson, Text)
- Juice (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton).
This year’s judging panel includes Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian of the State Library of NSW, as chair, and literary scholars Jumana Bayeh, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, and Hsu-Ming Teo.
Discussing the 2025 longlist, the judges described the novels as encompassing ‘a sometimes dizzying variety of writing’. ‘The novels enlarge our sense of what it is to be Australian as a diasporic nation with an ancient and living human history.’
‘Pulsing through these works are the memories and imaginaries of medieval China, modern India, Moana Pasifika and the Indigenous experience of colonisation. Settings shifted from Sydney’s outer suburbs to Melbourne’s inner city, from the Adelaide Hills to the state forests of the Southern Highlands. […] More than anything, it was the authenticity of these voices, with all their tricks and textures, that spoke to us judges.’
This year’s shortlist will be announced in June, with the winner announcement to follow in late July.
The 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner was Alexis Wright for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo).
More information about the award is available on award trustee Perpetual Limited’s website.
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