Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most important Australian literary awards .
The award, worth 60,000 Australian dollars (as of 2020), comes from the estate of the writer Miles Franklin . It is awarded annually by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney for a book that was published in the Award or the previous year that portrays Australian life.
Award winners
- 1957: Voss , Patrick White
- 1958: To the Islands , Randolph Stow
- 1959: The Big Fellow , Vance Palmer
- 1960: The Irishman , Elizabeth O'Conner
- 1961: Riders in the Chariot , Patrick White
- 1962: The Well Dressed Explorer , Thea Astley ; The Cupboard Under the Stairs, George Turner
- 1963: Careful He Might Hear You , Sumner Locke Elliott
- 1964: My Brother Jack , George Henry Johnston
- 1965: The Slow Natives , Thea Astley
- 1966: Trap , Peter Mathers
- 1967: Bring Larks and Heroes , Thomas Keneally
- 1968: Three Cheers for the Paraclete , Thomas Keneally
- 1969: Clean Straw for Nothing , George Henry Johnston
- 1970: A Horse of Air , Dal Stivens
- 1971: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner , David Ireland
- 1972: The Acolyte , Thea Astley
- 1973: no award
- 1974: The Mango Tree , Ronald McKie
- 1975: Poor Fellow My Country , Xavier Herbert
- 1976: The Glass Canoe , David Ireland
- 1977: Swords and Crowns and Rings , Ruth Park
- 1978: Tirra Lirra by the River , Jessica Anderson
- 1979: A Woman of the Future , David Ireland
- 1980: The Impersonators , Jessica Anderson
- 1981: Bliss , Peter Carey
- 1982: Just Relations , Rodney Hall
- 1983: no award
- 1984: Shallows , Tim Winton
- 1985: The Doubleman , Christopher John Koch
- 1986: The Well , Elizabeth Jolley
- 1987: Dancing on Coral , Glenda Adams
- 1988: changed from year of publication to year of award
- 1989: Oscar and Lucinda , Peter Carey
- 1990: Oceana Fine , Tom Flood
- 1991: The Great World , David Malouf
- 1992: Cloudstreet , Tim Winton
- 1993: The Ancestor Game , Alex Miller
- 1994: The Grisly Wife , Rodney Hall
- 1995: The Hand That Signed the Paper , Helen Demidenko
- 1996: Highways to a War , Christopher John Koch
- 1997: The Glade within the Grove , David Foster
- 1998: Jack Maggs , Peter Carey
- 1999: Eucalyptus , Murray Bail
- 2000: Drylands , Thea Astley ; Benang , Kim Scott
- 2001: Dark Palace , Frank Moorhouse
- 2002: Dirt Music , Tim Winton
- 2003: Journey to the Stone Country , Alex Miller
- 2004: The Great Fire , Shirley Hazzard
- 2005: The White Earth , Andrew McGahan
- 2006: The Ballad of Desmond Kale , Roger McDonald
- 2007: Carpentaria , Alexis Wright
- 2008: The Time We Have Taken , Steven Carroll
- 2009: Breath , Tim Winton
- 2010: Truth , Peter Temple
- 2011: That Deadman Dance , Kim Scott
- 2012: All That I Am , Anna Funder
- 2013: Questions of Travel , Michelle de Kretser
- 2014: All The Birds, Singing , Evie Wyld
- 2015: The Eye of the Sheep , Sofie Laguna
- 2016: Black Rock White City , AS Patrić
- 2017: Extinctions , Josephine Wilson
- 2018: The Life to Come , Michelle de Kretser
- 2019: Too Much Lip , Melissa Lucashenko
- 2020: The Yield , Tara June Winch
Web links
- The Miles Franklin Award (not updated since 2007)