Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009

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 most well known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (published in 1901) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award. The prize is now worth over $40,000.

The award was first given in 1957 to Patrick White for Voss. Some of the more notable winners in the intervening years have been, Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2002), Jack Maggs (1998), Oscar and Lucinda and Bliss (1981) by three time winner Peter Carey, Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert (1975) and Sumner Locke’s 1963 winner, Careful, He Might Hear You.

Check out all of the past winners right here. The shortlist for the Miles Franklin Award for 2009 is as follows: -

Breath by Tim Winton
The Pages by Murray Bail
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
Ice by Louise Nowra
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

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