Miles Franklin Award

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’.^[1] 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.^[2] As of 2011^[update], the award is valued A$50,000.^[3]

1 Winners
2 Shortlisted Works
3 Longlisted works
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links

Winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2011	Kim Scott	That Deadman Dance	Picador
2010	Peter Temple	Truth	Text Publishing
2009	Tim Winton	Breath	Hamish Hamilton
2008	Steven Carroll	The Time We Have Taken	HarperCollins Publishers
2007	Alexis Wright	Carpentaria	Giramondo
2006	Roger McDonald	The Ballad of Desmond Kale	Vintage
2005	Andrew McGahan	The White Earth	Allen & Unwin
2004	Shirley Hazzard	The Great Fire	Farrar Straus and Giroux
2003	Alex Miller	Journey to the Stone Country	Allen & Unwin
2002	Tim Winton	Dirt Music	Picador
2001	Frank Moorhouse	Dark Palace	Knopf
2000	Thea Astley Kim Scott	Drylands Benang	Penguin Books Fremantle Press
1999	Murray Bail	Eucalyptus	Random House
1998	Peter Carey	Jack Maggs	University of Queensland Press
1997	David Foster	The Glade within the Grove	Vintage
1996	Christopher Koch	Highways to a War	Heinemann
1995	Helen Demidenko	The Hand That Signed the Paper	Allen & Unwin
1994	Rodney Hall	The Grisly Wife	Macmillan
1993	Alex Miller	The Ancestor Game	Penguin Books
1992	Tim Winton	Cloudstreet	Penguin Books
1991	David Malouf	The Great World	Chatto & Windus
1990	Tom Flood	Oceana Fine	Allen & Unwin
1989	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	University of Queensland Press
1988	No award		Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.
1987	Glenda Adams	Dancing on Coral	Viking Press
1986	Elizabeth Jolley	The Well	Viking Press
1985	Christopher Koch	The Doubleman	Chatto & Windus
1984	Tim Winton	Shallows	Allen & Unwin
1983	No award
1982	Rodney Hall	Just Relations	Penguin Books
1981	Peter Carey	Bliss	Faber and Faber
1980	Jessica Anderson	The Impersonators	Macmillan
1979	David Ireland	A Woman of the Future	Penguin Books
1978	Jessica Anderson	Tirra Lirra By the River	Macmillan
1977	Ruth Park	Swords and Crowns and Rings	Nelson Books
1976	David Ireland	The Glass Canoe	Macmillan
1975	Xavier Herbert	Poor Fellow My Country	Fontana Books
1974	Ronald McKie	The Mango Tree	Collins
1973	No award
1972	Thea Astley	The Acolyte	Angus and Robertson
1971	David Ireland	The Unknown Industrial Prisoner	Angus and Robertson
1970	Dal Stivens	A Horse of Air	Angus and Robertson
1969	George Johnston	Clean Straw for Nothing	Collins
1968	Thomas Keneally	Three Cheers for the Paraclete	Angus and Robertson
1967	Thomas Keneally	Bring Larks and Heroes	Cassell
1966	Peter Mathers	Trap	Cassell
1965	Thea Astley	The Slow Natives	Angus and Robertson
1964	George Johnston	My Brother Jack	Collins
1963	Sumner Locke Elliott	Careful, He Might Hear You	Harper and Row
1962	Thea Astley George Turner	The Well Dressed Explorer The Cupboard Under the Stairs	Angus & Robertson Cassell
1961	Patrick White	Riders in the Chariot	Eyre & Spottiswoode
1960	Elizabeth O'Conner	The Irishman	Angus and Robertson
1959	Vance Palmer	The Big Fellow	Angus and Robertson
1958	Randolph Stow	To the Islands	Penguin Books
1957	Patrick White	Voss	Eyre & Spottiswoode

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.

2011^[4]

Bereft, Chris Womersley
That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald

2010^[5]

Lovesong, Alex Miller
The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
Truth, Peter Temple
Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett

2009^[6]^[7]

2008^[8]

The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks
The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall
Sorry, Gail Jones
Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller

2007^[9]

2006^[10]

The Garden Book, Brian Castro
The Secret River, Kate Grenville
The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker

2005^[11]

Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood

2004^[12]

My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey
Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
Three Dog Night, Peter Goldsworthy
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
Slow Water, Annamarie Jagose
Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman

2003

The Prosperous Thief, Andrea Goldsmith
Of a Boy, Sonya Hartnett
Moral Hazard, Kate Jennings
An Angel in Australia, Tom Keneally
Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller
Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter

2002

The Art of the Engine Driver, Steven Carroll
Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
Gilgamesh, Joan London
The Architect, John Scott
Dirt Music, Tim Winton

2001

True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
The Company, Arabella Edge
The Day We Had Hitler Home, Rodney Hall
English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller
Dark Palace, Frank Moorhouse
Life after George, Hannie Rayson

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

Drylands, Thea Astley
Too Many Men, Lily Brett
What a Piece of Work, Dorothy Porter
Benang, Kim Scott
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop, Amy Witting

Note: Dorothy Porter's What a Piece of Work is the first verse novel to be shortlisted.

1999

1998

Wrack, James Bradley
Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
The Service of Clouds, Delia Falconer
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Richard Flanagan
One for the Master, Dorothy Johnston
Lovesong, Elizabeth Jolley
Nightpictures, Rod Jones

1997

The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow, Thea Astley
Night Letters, Robert Dessaix
The Drowner, Robert Drewe
The Glade within the Grove, David Foster
Oyster, Janette Turner Hospital
The Conversations at Curlow Creek, David Malouf
Before I Wake, John Scott

1996

The White Garden, Carmel Bird
The House in the Light, Beverley Farmer
Bracelet Honeymyrtle, Judith Fox
The Touchstone, Paul Horsfall
Highways to a War, Christopher Koch
Camille's Bread, Amanda Lohrey
The Sitters, Alex Miller

1995

The Hand That Signed the Paper, Helen Demidenko
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan
Dark Places, Kate Grenville
A Mortality Tale, Jay Verney

1994

1993

Vanishing Points, Thea Astley
After China, Brian Castro
Cosmo Cosmolino, Helen Garner
The Last Magician, Janette Turner Hospital
Shearers' Motel, Roger McDonald
The Ancestor Game, Alex Miller

1992

Double Wolf, Brian Castro
Our Sunshine, Robert Drewe
To the Burning City, Alan Gould
The Second Bridegroom, Rodney Hall
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton

1991

Longleg, Glenda Adams
Taking Shelter, Jessica Anderson
Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley
The Bluebird Café, Carmel Bird
The Country Without Music, Nicholas Hasluck
The Great World, David Malouf

1990

Company of Images, Janine Burke
Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy
Avenue of Eternal Peace, Nicholas Jose
Smyrna, Tony Maniaty
I for Isobel, Amy Witting

1989

Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Captivity Captive, Rodney Hall
Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw
Building on Sand, David Parker
Charades, Janette Turner Hospital

1988 Note: Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was made in this year.

1987

Dancing on Coral, Glenda Adams
Holden's Performance, Murray Bail
Truant State, Nicholas Hasluck
Bloodfather, David Ireland
Home is the Sailor, Nancy Phelan

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.

2011