Miles Franklin Award
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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. As of 2006 the award is worth AU$42,000.
[edit] Winners
- 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
- Drylands, Thea Astley
- Benang, Kim Scott
- 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
- The Well Dressed Explorer, Thea Astley
- The Cupboard Under the Stairs, George Turner
- 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
