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...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna, A&U) The...
Miles Franklin shortlist, NSW Prem’s winners announced tonight
The shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced in Melbourne tonight.The announcement will take place at the State Library of Victoria following the Miles Franklin Oration by...
Miles Franklin 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage) The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane,...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr, Fremantle Press) The Narrow Road to...
‘Questions of Travel’ wins 2013 Miles Franklin
Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. De Kretser’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: Floundering (Romy Ash,...
Miles Franklin winner announced today
The winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced at the National Library of Australia in Canberra today between 1-2pm. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the following...
All female Miles Franklin shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award features five books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser,...
Miles Franklin 2013 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Lola Bensky (Lily Brett, Hamish Hamilton) Street to Street (Brian...
Miles Franklin Literary Award to increase to $60,000 in 2013; new judging panel announced
The prize money for the Miles Franklin Literary Award will increase to $60,000 in 2013, up from $50,000 this year. The Trust Company, as trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award,...
‘All That I Am’ wins 2012 Miles Franklin
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin, All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented on Wednesday 20 June at a ceremony...
Anna Funder’s Miles Franklin acceptance speech
While she wasn’t able to accept her award in person, 2012 Miles Franklin winner Anna Funder gave the following acceptance speech by video, arguing that literary prizes ‘provide signposts as...
‘All That I Am’ wins 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented tonight at a ceremony in Brisbane. All That I Am was selected for...
Miles Franklin 2012 shortlist announced
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin on Thursday 3 May, the shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch,...
Interview with Anna Funder on ‘All That I Am’
Stasiland author Anna Funder found the transition to fiction ‘joyful’ and ‘liberating’. She spoke to David Gaunt about her debut novel All That I Am in the August 2011 issue...
Interview with Gillian Mears on ‘Foal’s Bread’
Gillian Mears grew up horse mad and horse-book mad. She spoke to Heather Dyer about her latest novel, Foal’s Bread (A&U) in the August 2011 edition of Bookseller+Publisher. (See the...
Interview with Frank Moorhouse on ‘Cold Light’
In the conclusion to Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry mixes politics with pleasure in post-war Canberra. Moorhouse spoke to Andrea Hanke in the...
All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
Given the striking intelligence and originality that Anna Funder brought to the subject of the East German Secret Police in her award-winning Stasiland, it comes as no surprise to find...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch, UQP) All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin) Foal’s Bread (Gillian...
Miles Franklin 2012 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch, UQP) The Spirit of Progress (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) Spirit House...