Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Award is the most prestigeous literary award in Australia. It is awarded annually to a “published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases”. Which causes quite a stir among Australian literary circles. In my never ending quest to read, I feel I should get on to reading as many of these fine novels as I can. Here’s a list so far. Note, though, that this isn’t a list of ‘to be read’ novels. I’m getting there – I’m just not in any rush. Remember there have been some years where the award was not handed out, and a few years where there were joint winners. Click the links to read the reviews.
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
1962 – The Cupboard Under the Stairs – George TURNER
1963 – Careful, He Might Hear You – Sumner Locke ELLIOTT
1964 – My Brother Jack – George 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 JOHNSTON
1970 – A Horse of Air – Dal STIVENS
1971 – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner – David IRELAND
1972 – The Acolyte – Thea ASTLEY
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
1984 – Shallows – Tim WINTON
1985 – The Doubleman – Christopher KOCH
1986 – The Well – Elizabeth JOLLEY
1987 – Dancing on Coral – Glenda ADAMS
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 KOCH
1997 – The Glade Within the Grove – David FOSTER
1998 – Jack Maggs – Peter CAREY
1999 – Eucalyptus – Murray BAIL
2o00 – Drylands – Thea ASTLEY
2000 – 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
