Miles Franklin Award

Categories: Literary awards | Australian awards

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar.

The award, now worth $42,000(AUD), was bequeathed by the will of the Australian novelist Miles Franklin, for a ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. All entries for the Award must have been published in the previous calendar year.

The Miles Franklin Literary Award not only rewards Australian authors but, as Frank Moorhouse said in his winner’s acceptance speech on 5 June 2001, it also 'honours the great art of story telling.'

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Previous winners

1988 - Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.

1983 - No award.

1973 - No award.