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]
Winners
- 2008 - The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
- 2007 - Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
- 2006 - The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
- 2005 - The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
- 2004 - The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
- 2003 - Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller
- 2002 - Dirt Music, Tim Winton
- 2001 - Dark Palace, Frank Moorhouse
- 2000 - tie
- 1999 - Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
- 1998 - Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
- 1997 - The Glade within the Grove, David Foster
- 1996 - Highways to a War, Christopher Koch
- 1995 - The Hand That Signed the Paper, Helen Demidenko
- 1994 - The Grisly Wife, Rodney Hall
- 1993 - The Ancestor Game, Alex Miller
- 1992 - Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
- 1991 - The Great World, David Malouf
- 1990 - Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
- 1989 - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1988 - Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.
- 1987 - Dancing on Coral, Glenda Adams
- 1986 - The Well, Elizabeth Jolley
- 1985 - The Doubleman, Christopher Koch
- 1984 - Shallows, Tim Winton
- 1983 - No award.
- 1982 - Just Relations, Rodney Hall
- 1981 - Bliss, Peter Carey
- 1980 - The Impersonators, Jessica Anderson
- 1979 - A Woman of the Future, David Ireland
- 1978 - Tirra Lirra By the River, Jessica Anderson
- 1977 - Swords and Crowns and Rings, Ruth Park
- 1976 - The Glass Canoe, David Ireland
- 1975 - Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert
- 1974 - The Mango Tree, Ronald McKie
- 1973 - No award.
- 1972 - The Acolyte, Thea Astley
- 1971 - The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, David Ireland
- 1970 - A Horse of Air, Dal Stivens
- 1969 - Clean Straw for Nothing, George Johnston
- 1968 - Three Cheers for the Paraclete, Thomas Keneally
- 1967 - Bring Larks and Heroes, Thomas Keneally
- 1966 - Trap, Peter Mathers
- 1965 - The Slow Natives, Thea Astley
- 1964 - My Brother Jack, George Johnston
- 1963 - Careful, He Might Hear You, Sumner Locke Elliott
- 1962 - tie
- 1961 - Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
- 1960 - The Irishman, Elizabeth O'Conner
- 1959 - The Big Fellow, Vance Palmer
- 1958 - To the Islands, Randolph Stow
- 1957 - Voss, Patrick White
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.
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
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.
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988 Note: Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was made in this year.
1987
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
- Knitting, Anne Bartlett
- The Garden Book, Brian Castro
- The Secret River, Kate Grenville
- An Accidental Tourist, Stephen Lang
- The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
- Prochownik's Dream, Alex Miller
- Sunnyside, Joanna Murray-Smith
- A Case of Knives, Peter Rose
- The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
- Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas
- The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker
2005
- Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
- The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
- Backwaters, Robert Engwarda
- The Ghost Writer, John Harwood
- The Broken Book, Susan Johnson
- Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
- A Private Man, Malcolm Knox
- The Philosopher's Doll, Amanda Lohrey
- The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
- I Have Kissed Your Lips, Gerard Windsor
- The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood
- The Last Ride, Denise Young
See also
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