Lucashenko wins 2019 Miles Franklin for ‘Too Much Lip’
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her sixth novel, Too Much Lip (UQP). Lucashenko is the third Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin in...
De Kretser wins 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘The Life to Come’
Michelle de Kretser has won the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Life to Come (A&U). The Life to Come is de Kretser’s first novel since Questions of Travel (A&U), which won the...
The ‘B+P’ guide to the Miles Franklin 2018 shortlist
Six titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Two of these are from multinational publishers (one each from HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan), three are from small, independent...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: No More Boats (Felicity Castagna, Giramondo) The Life to Come (Michelle de Kretser, A&U) The Last...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The 11 longlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) No More Boats (Felicity...
Dinner and deadlines: the 2010 Miles Franklin award ceremony
This week I was lucky enough to attend my first Miles Franklin Award ceremony, and it was rather exciting. Apparently it hasn’t always been so. I was surprised to read...
Miller and the Miles Franklin: Do we have too many awards?
From today's Crikey newsletter, former Bookseller+Publisher editor and literary blogger Angela Meyer writes: Are there too many literary awards in Australia, and is our oldest one 'slipping away'? If an Australian...
The week that was: Friday round-up
The longlist of that iconic award, the Miles Franklin was announced this week, with the ratio of male to female authors—that’d be nine men versus three women—troubling some (especially following...