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The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australia

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n ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will

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of Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901...

(1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin , one of the major Australian writers of her time. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends...

(published in 1901) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award. , the award is valued A$

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50,000.

Winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2011	Kim Scott Kim Scott Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...	That Deadman Dance That Deadman Dance That Deadman Dance is the third novel by Western Australian author Kim Scott. It was first published in 2010 by Picador and will be published in the UK, US and Canada in 2012 by Bloomsbury...	Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
2010 2010 in Australian literature -Awards and honours:22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his crime novel Truth.-See also: Literature* List of years in Australian literature* List of Australian literary awards* 2010 in Australia* 2010 in literature* 2010 in poetry...	Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...	Truth Truth (novel) Truth is an award-winning 2009 crime fiction novel written by Peter Temple. The novel is a sequel to Temple's 2005 novel The Broken Shore, and won the Miles Franklin Award in 2010....	Text Publishing
2009 2009 in Australian literature The year 2009 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2009 in literature.See also:2008 in Australian literature,2009 in Australia,...	Tim Winton Tim Winton Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....	Breath Breath (novel) Breath is the twentieth book and the eighth novel by Australian novelist Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany....	Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton...
2008 2008 in Australian literature The year 2008 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2008 in literature.See also:2007 in Australian literature,2008 in Australia,...	Steven Carroll Steven Carroll Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...	The Time We Have Taken The Time We Have Taken The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s...	HarperCollins Publishers Fourth Estate The concept of the Fourth Estate is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. The Fourth Estate now most commonly refers to the news media; especially print journalism, referred to hereon as "The Press"...
2007 2007 in Australian literature The year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature.See also:2006 in Australian literature,2007 in Australia,...	Alexis Wright Alexis Wright Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria....	Carpentaria Carpentaria (novel) Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007....	Giramondo
2006 2006 in Australian literature The year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...	Roger McDonald Roger McDonald Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....	The Ballad of Desmond Kale The Ballad of Desmond Kale The Ballad of Desmond Kale is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald.-Dedication:For Lorna McDonaldwith love and thanksfor gifts of conversation, friendship, and exampleover a lifetime-External links:Reviews**...	Vintage Vintage Books Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf. Its publishing list includes world literature, fiction, and non-fiction...
2005 2005 in Australian literature The year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...	Andrew McGahan Andrew McGahan Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...	The White Earth The White Earth The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan.The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009.-Notes:...	Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
2004 2004 in Australian literature The year 2004 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.See also:2003 in Australian literature,2004 in Australia,...	Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States...	The Great Fire The Great Fire (novel) The Great Fire is the 2003 National Book Award winning novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It also won a 2004 Miles Franklin literary award.-Overview:The New Yorker wrote of the novel:Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating...	Farrar Straus and Giroux
2003 2003 in Australian literature The year 2003 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2003 in literature.See also:2002 in literature,2003 in Australia,2004 in Australian literature....	Alex Miller Alex Miller (writer) Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...	Journey to the Stone Country Journey to the Stone Country Journey to the Stone Country is a 2002 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize, 2005: shortlisted...	Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
2002 2002 in literature The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...	Tim Winton Tim Winton Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....	Dirt Music Dirt Music Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a Booker prize shortlisted novel from 2001 and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.-Plot summary:...	Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
2001 2001 in literature The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...	Frank Moorhouse Frank Moorhouse Frank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....	Dark Palace Dark Palace Dark Palace is a 2000 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Frank Moorhouse. It forms the second part of the author's Palais de Nations series, following Grand Days in 1993.-Reviews:*"API Review of Books"...	Knopf
2000 2000 in literature The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...	Thea Astley Thea Astley Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer... Kim Scott Kim Scott Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...	Drylands Benang Benang Benang is a 1999 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Kim Scott. The award was shared with Drylands by Thea Astley.Reviewing the novel for The Hindu, K...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large... Fremantle Press
1999 1999 in literature The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...	Murray Bail Murray Bail Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...	Eucalyptus Eucalyptus (novel) Eucalyptus is a novel by Australian novelist Murray Bail. The book won the 1999 Miles Franklin Award and the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.-Plot introduction:...	Random House Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
1998 1998 in literature The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....	Peter Carey	Jack Maggs Jack Maggs -Plot summary:Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. The story centres around Jack Maggs and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps , who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household.Maggs...	University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance...
1997 1997 in literature The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...	David Foster David Foster (novelist) David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...	The Glade within the Grove The Glade within the Grove The Glade within the Grove is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Foster.-Awards:International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998: shortlistedMiles Franklin Literary Award, 1997: winner...	Vintage Vintage Books Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf. Its publishing list includes world literature, fiction, and non-fiction...
1996 1996 in literature The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community." In the United Kingdom, the first...	Christopher Koch Christopher Koch Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....	Highways to a War Highways to a War Highways to a War is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Christopher Koch.In an interview in 2000, Koch noted that this novel, and his later work Out of Ireland, formed a diptych called Beware of the Past.-Plot summary:...	Heinemann Heinemann (book publisher) Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961...
1995 1995 in literature The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....	Helen Demidenko Helen Darville Helen Dale , also known as Helen Darville and Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer.While studying English literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, she wrote The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who become both bystanders and perpetrators...	The Hand That Signed the Paper	Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
1994 1994 in literature The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi SearchReed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...	Rodney Hall Rodney Hall -Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...	The Grisly Wife The Grisly Wife The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."...	Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
1993 1993 in literature The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....	Alex Miller Alex Miller (writer) Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...	The Ancestor Game The Ancestor Game The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1993: winnerCommonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 1993: winner...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1992 1992 in literature The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Ben Aaronovitch - TransitJulia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsPaul Auster - LeviathanIain Banks - The Crow Road...	Tim Winton Tim Winton Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....	Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1991 1991 in literature The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....	David Malouf David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...	The Great World The Great World The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.-Awards:Festival Awards for Literature , National Fiction Award, 1992: winnerPrix Femina , Best Foreign Novel, 1991: winner...	Chatto & Windus
1990 1990 in literature The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...	Tom Flood Tom Flood Tom Flood is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia....	Oceana Fine Oceana Fine Oceana Fine is a 1989 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Tom Flood.-Awards:Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1990: winnerVictorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 1990: winner...	Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
1989 1989 in literature The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.-Plot introduction:...	University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance...
1988 1988 in literature The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Margaret Atwood - Cat's EyeJ.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...	No award		Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.
1987 1987 in literature The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...	Glenda Adams Glenda Adams Glenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...	Dancing on Coral Dancing on Coral Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.-Awards:Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1987: winnerNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 1987: winner-Notes:...	Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
1986 1986 in literature The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...	Elizabeth Jolley Elizabeth Jolley Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...	The Well The Well (novel) The Well is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth Jolley. It tells the story of two women, Hester and her young ward Katherine, and their relationship with one another. Hester, who has lived alone on a farm with her father for many years, is possessive of the much...	Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
1985 1985 in literature The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Isaac Asimov - Robots and EmpireMargaret Atwood - The Handmaid's TaleJean M. Auel - The Mammoth HuntersIain Banks - Walking on Glass...	Christopher Koch Christopher Koch Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....	The Doubleman The Doubleman The Doubleman is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Christopher Koch.-References:*...	Chatto & Windus
1984 1984 in literature The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read....	Tim Winton Tim Winton Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....	Shallows Shallows Shallows is a 1984 novel by Australian author Tim Winton about whaling.Shallows won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award. Carolyn See called it "a dark masterpiece that ranks with "Moby-Dick."...	Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
1983 1983 in literature The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...	No award
1982 1982 in literature The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...	Rodney Hall Rodney Hall -Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...	Just Relations Just Relations Just Relations is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Rodney Hall.The novel won the Miles Franklin Award, the FAW ANA Literature Award, and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, in 1982.-References:*...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1981 1981 in literature The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...	Peter Carey	Bliss Bliss (novel) Bliss is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award.-Plot:Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he...	Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
1980 1980 in literature The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to the Académie française....	Jessica Anderson Jessica Anderson Jessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...	The Impersonators The Impersonators The Impersonators is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson. It was published in the United States under the alternative title The Only Daughter....	Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
1979 1979 in literature The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyV.C...	David Ireland David Ireland (author) David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....	A Woman of the Future A Woman of the Future A Woman of the Future is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.-References:*...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1978 1978 in literature The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude...	Jessica Anderson Jessica Anderson Jessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...	Tirra Lirra By the River Tirra Lirra By the River Tirra Lirra by the River is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson.For Nora Porteous, life is a series of escapes. To escape her tightly knit small-town family, she marries, only to find herself confined again, this time in a stifling Sydney suburb with a...	Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
1977 1977 in literature The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE....	Ruth Park Ruth Park Ruth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...	Swords and Crowns and Rings Swords and Crowns and Rings Swords and Crowns and Rings is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Ruth Park.-References:...	Nelson Books
1976 1976 in literature The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...	David Ireland David Ireland (author) David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....	The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.It is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass - a glass canoe.-References:...	Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
1975 1975 in literature The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.* Writing under the...	Xavier Herbert Xavier Herbert Xavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country . He is considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature...	Poor Fellow My Country Poor Fellow My Country Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. It is the longest Australian book ever written. Primarily, it is the story of Jeremy Delacy and his illegitimate grandson Prindy in the years leading up to World War II...	Fontana Books
1974 1974 in literature The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.-New books:Richard Adams - Shardik*Kingsley Amis - Ending Up...	Ronald McKie Ronald McKie Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie is an Australian novelist. He was born in 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and China...	The Mango Tree The Mango Tree The Mango Tree is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.-References:...	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1973 1973 in literature The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.-Events:*September 25 - The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet...	No award
1972 1972 in literature The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Fiction:Richard Adams - Watership DownJorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra *Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers...	Thea Astley Thea Astley Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...	The Acolyte The Acolyte (novel) The Acolyte is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley.It is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg...	Angus and Robertson
1971 1971 in literature The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...	David Ireland David Ireland (author) David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....	The Unknown Industrial Prisoner The Unknown Industrial Prisoner The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.-References:...	Angus and Robertson
1970 1970 in literature The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published...	Dal Stivens Dal Stivens Dal Stivens was an Australian writer.After serving in the army during the war, from 1944 to 1949, Stivens was on the staff of the Australian Department of Information. He served in the press office at Australia House in London until 1950...	A Horse of Air A Horse of Air A Horse of Air is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Dal Stivens. The horse of the title makes reference to the Australian Aboriginal term for the night parrot. When horses where first introduced to the Australian mainland, their galloping motion was said to resemble the...	Angus and Robertson
1969 1969 in literature The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...	George Johnston George Johnston (novelist) George Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. His second wife and literary collaborator was Charmian Clift.-Life:...	Clean Straw for Nothing Clean Straw for Nothing Clean Straw for Nothing is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author George Johnston. This novel is a sequel to My Brother Jack....	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1968 1968 in literature The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published....	Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...	Three Cheers for the Paraclete Three Cheers for the Paraclete Three Cheers for the Paraclete is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally.-Awards and nominations:Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1968: winnerC. Weichhardt Award for Australian Literature, 1969: winner-External links:...	Angus and Robertson
1967 1967 in literature The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.-New books:...	Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...	Bring Larks and Heroes Bring Larks and Heroes Bring Larks and Heroes is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally. It is set in an unidentified Penal colony in the South Pacific, which bears a superficial resemblance to Sydney...	Cassell Orion Publishing Group Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...
1966 1966 in literature The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....	Peter Mathers Peter Mathers Peter Mathers was an Australian author and playwright.He came to Australia with his family as a child. He attended state school in Sydney and Sydney Technical College, where he studied agriculture...	Trap Trap (novel) Trap is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Peter Mathers....	Cassell Orion Publishing Group Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...
1965 1965 in literature The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Lloyd Alexander - The Black CauldronJ. G. Ballard - The DroughtRay Bradbury - The Vintage BradburyJohn Brunner...	Thea Astley Thea Astley Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...	The Slow Natives The Slow Natives The Slow Natives is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley, the first of her record number of four wins...	Angus and Robertson
1964 1964 in literature The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners....	George Johnston George Johnston (novelist) George Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. His second wife and literary collaborator was Charmian Clift.-Life:...	My Brother Jack My Brother Jack My Brother Jack is a classic Australian novel by writer George Johnston. It is part of a trilogy centring on the character of David Meredith...	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1963 1963 in literature The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...	Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist.-Biography:Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth...	Careful, He Might Hear You Careful, He Might Hear You (novel) Careful, He Might Hear You is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Sumner Locke Elliott. It was published in 1963.The 1983 film Careful, He Might Hear You was based on the novel.-References:...	Harper and Row
1962 1962 in literature The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."...	Thea Astley Thea Astley Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer... George Turner George Turner (writer) George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...	The Well Dressed Explorer The Well Dressed Explorer The Well Dressed Explorer is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner.-Plot summary:... The Cupboard Under the Stairs The Cupboard Under the Stairs The Cupboard Under the Stairs is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author George Turner. This novel shared the award with The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley....	Angus & Robertson Angus & Robertson Angus & Robertson is a bookstore chain in Australia. Its first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Angus in 1884; it sold second-hand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot, George Robertson with whom he had worked earlier.- Bookselling history... Cassell Orion Publishing Group Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...
1961 1961 in literature The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiMichael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model....	Patrick White Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...	Riders in the Chariot Riders in the Chariot Riders in the Chariot is the sixth published novel by Australian Author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner of 1973. It was published in 1961 and won the Miles Franklin Award in that year...	Eyre & Spottiswoode Eyre & Spottiswoode Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd. was the London based printing firm that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, after April 1929, a publisher of the same name...
1960 1960 in literature The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom....	Elizabeth O'Conner Elizabeth O'Conner Elizabeth O'Conner under the name Barbara Lowe is an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney.She married in 1942 and moved to the...	The Irishman The Irishman The Irishman is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth O'Conner.The novel deals with the experiences of Paddy Doolan, an Irish teamster, and his sons in the Gulf Country in the north of Australia.-Film Adaptation:...	Angus and Robertson
1959 1959 in literature The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932....	Vance Palmer	The Big Fellow The Big Fellow (novel) The Big Fellow is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Vance Palmer.-References:...	Angus and Robertson
1958 1958 in literature The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....	Randolph Stow Randolph Stow Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...	To the Islands To the Islands To the Islands is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Randolph Stow.-References:***...	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1957 1957 in literature The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....	Patrick White Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...	Voss Voss (novel) Voss is the fifth published novel of Patrick White. It is based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback.-Plot summary:...	Eyre & Spottiswoode Eyre & Spottiswoode Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd. was the London based printing firm that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, after April 1929, a publisher of the same name...

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
2011 in literature
The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.*Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...

Bereft, Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is an Australian author of crime fiction, short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India, South-East Asia, South America, North America, and West Africa...
That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance is the third novel by Western Australian author Kim Scott. It was first published in 2010 by Picador and will be published in the UK, US and Canada in 2012 by Bloomsbury...

, Kim Scott
Kim Scott
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....

2010
2010 in literature
The year 2010 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February - The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", officially opened.*April 3 - First release of the Apple iPad, electronic book reading device....

Lovesong, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
Truth
Truth (novel)
Truth is an award-winning 2009 crime fiction novel written by Peter Temple. The novel is a sequel to Temple's 2005 novel The Broken Shore, and won the Miles Franklin Award in 2010....

, Peter Temple
Peter Temple
Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...
Butterfly
Butterfly (novel)
Butterfly is a 2009 young adult fiction novel by Sonya Hartnett about the troubled adolescence of Plum Coyle, set in 1980s Australian suburbia....

, Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...

2009
2009 in literature
The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....

The Pages, Murray Bail
Murray Bail
Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...
Wanting
Wanting (novel)
-Plot summary:Wanting cuts between two stories based on real historical figures under the central theme of 'wanting', and is set in both nineteenth century Tasmania and Britain...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
Ice, Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights...
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
Breath
Breath (novel)
Breath is the twentieth book and the eighth novel by Australian novelist Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany....

, Tim Winton
Tim Winton
Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

2008
2008 in Australian literature
The year 2008 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2008 in literature.See also:2007 in Australian literature,2008 in Australia,...

The Fern Tattoo
The Fern Tattoo
The Fern Tattoo is a 2007 novel by the Australian author David Brooks.-Plot summary:Benedict's mother has recently died; after the funeral he receives a phone call from Mrs. Darling, a friend of his mother's. Benedict visits the old woman in the countryside where she tells him various tales that...

, David Brooks
David Brooks (author)
David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...
The Time We Have Taken
The Time We Have Taken
The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s...

, Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
Love Without Hope
Love Without Hope
Love Without Hope is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.- Epigraph :"You are not dying because you are ill. You are dying because you are alive." - Montaigne- Awards and nominations :*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
Sorry
Sorry (novel)
-Themes:The novel explores the major themes of Australian Aboriginal-White relations, the isolation and despair of farm life, the Stolen Generations, and life in World War II in Australia.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Landscape of Farewell
Landscape of Farewell
Landscape of Farewell is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards and nominations:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...

2007
2007 in Australian literature
The year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature.See also:2006 in Australian literature,2007 in Australia,...

Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.-Awards and nominations:...

, Peter Carey
Dreams of Speaking
Dreams of Speaking
-Themes:The novel explores the themes of the creative writing process, memory, loneliness and cross-cultural friendships.-Epigraph:"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking" - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet-Awards:...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Careless
Careless (novel)
-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted...

, Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology...
Carpentaria
Carpentaria (novel)
Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007....

, Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria....

2006
2006 in Australian literature
The year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...

The Garden Book
The Garden Book
-Epigraph:Also a used bookstore, plant and gift store and coffeeshop in the city of San Diego, Calif. for at least a ten-year period between 1990 and finally closing in 2003.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2006: shortlisted...

, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
The Secret River
The Secret River
The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical fiction about an early 19th century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what may have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people. The book is also one of careful...

, Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published nine novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process....
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
The Ballad of Desmond Kale is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald.-Dedication:For Lorna McDonaldwith love and thanksfor gifts of conversation, friendship, and exampleover a lifetime-External links:Reviews**...

, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.-Biography:Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia...
The Wing of Night
The Wing of Night
-Notes:*"Dedication: For Tom"*Epigraph: "My own taste has always been for unwritten history and my present business is with the reverse of the picture." Henry James.-Awards:*Waverley Library Award for Literature, The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize, 2006: winner...

, Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker is an Australian writer. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She is now Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia...

2005
2005 in Australian literature
The year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...

Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong is an Australian journalist and novelist. Over an eight year period she worked for the ABC on radio programs including AM, PM and The World Today where she won a Walkley Award...
The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed is a 2004 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the second in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and followed by The Time We Have Taken.-Reviews:**...

, Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
Sixty Lights
Sixty Lights
-Awards:*Man Booker Prize, 2004: longlisted*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2004: winner*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize, 2004: winner...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
The White Earth
The White Earth
The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan.The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009.-Notes:...

, Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...
The Submerged Cathedral
The Submerged Cathedral (novel)
-Dedication:"For my parents, John and Felicia, whose love story inspired this one and for Sean, with gratitude for ours."-Awards:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2005: shortlisted...

, Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is an Australian novelist.Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels. She currently lives in Sydney. She has a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a BA from Charles Sturt University. Her new novel,...

2004
2004 in Australian literature
The year 2004 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.See also:2003 in Australian literature,2004 in Australia,...

My Life as a Fake
My Life as a Fake
My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins....

, Peter Carey
Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of animals and literary censorship...

, J.M. Coetzee
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night (novel)
-Dramatic adaptation:In 2008 Petra Kalive adptated this novel for the stage. Its first production was directed by Andrew Gray at Two Blue Cherries Theatre Company at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 14-25 May 2008.-Awards:...

, Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....
The Great Fire
The Great Fire (novel)
The Great Fire is the 2003 National Book Award winning novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It also won a 2004 Miles Franklin literary award.-Overview:The New Yorker wrote of the novel:Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating...

, Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States...
Slow Water
Slow Water
-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2004: shortlisted*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2004: winner*Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2004: winner-Reviews:*...

, Annamarie Jagose
Annamarie Jagose
Annamarie Jagose is a queer writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Film,...
Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...

2003
2003 in Australian literature
The year 2003 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2003 in literature.See also:2002 in literature,2003 in Australia,2004 in Australian literature....

The Prosperous Thief, Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith
-Life:Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children with severe communication impairment until...
Of a Boy
Of a Boy
Of a Boy is a 2002 novel by Sonya Hartnett about a lonely and troubled youth.The omnipresent narrator follows the plight of Adrian, a 9 year old child, who was taken away from his mother as she was "unfit to care for him". Adrian spends his days thinking of things that unsettle him such as sea...

, Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...
Moral Hazard
Moral Hazard (novel)
-Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , Dymocks Booksellers Award for Fiction, 2004: winner*New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2003: winner*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2003: shortlisted...

, Kate Jennings
Kate Jennings
Kate Jennings is an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.-Life:Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours...
An Angel in Australia
An Angel in Australia
An Angel in Australia is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II-Notes:* Dedication: "To the memory of Sergeant Tom Keneally, 3rd Australian Squadron, RAAF, North Africa, WWII"....

, Tom Keneally
Journey to the Stone Country
Journey to the Stone Country
Journey to the Stone Country is a 2002 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize, 2005: shortlisted...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...

2002
2002 in literature
The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...

The Art of the Engine Driver
The Art of the Engine Driver
The Art of the Engine Driver is a 2001 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the first in a sequence of novels, followed by The Gift of Speed and The Time We Have Taken.-Awards:...

, Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
Gould's Book of Fish
Gould's Book of Fish
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish is a 2001 novel by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan. Gould's Book of Fish was Flanagan's third novel.-Plot summary:...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (novel)
Gilgamesh, published in 2001, is the first full-length novel written by Joan London. It is inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest known poem....

, Joan London
Joan London (Australian author)
Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller...
The Architect, John Scott
John A. Scott
John Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....
Dirt Music
Dirt Music
Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a Booker prize shortlisted novel from 2001 and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.-Plot summary:...

, Tim Winton
Tim Winton
Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

2001
2001 in literature
The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...

True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang is an historical novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and...

, Peter Carey
The Company, Arabella Edge
Arabella Edge
Arabella Edge is a writer and novelist whose first work, The Company, received a 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.-Early life :...
The Day We Had Hitler Home
The Day We Had Hitler Home
-Reviews:*"The Australian Public Intellectual Network" *"The London Review of Books" *"The Observer" *"Words and Flavours"...

, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
English Passengers
English Passengers
English Passengers is a 2000 historical novel written by Matthew Kneale, which won that year's Whitbread Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award...

, Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He went to school at Latymer Upper School and then studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards...
Conditions of Faith
Conditions of Faith
Conditions of Faith is a 2000 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Award, 2001: shortlisted*New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2001: winner-Reviews:*"Australian Book Review"...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
Dark Palace
Dark Palace
Dark Palace is a 2000 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Frank Moorhouse. It forms the second part of the author's Palais de Nations series, following Grand Days in 1993.-Reviews:*"API Review of Books"...

, Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....
Life after George, Hannie Rayson
Hannie Rayson
-Biography:Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson was the co-founder of the community...

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
2000 in literature
The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...

Drylands, Thea Astley
Thea Astley
Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
Too Many Men, Lily Brett
Lily Brett
Lily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically and with her feelings about the Holocaust....
What a Piece of Work, Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
Benang
Benang
Benang is a 1999 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Kim Scott. The award was shared with Drylands by Thea Astley.Reviewing the novel for The Hindu, K...

, Kim Scott
Kim Scott
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop, Amy Witting
Amy Witting
Amy Witting was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".-Life:Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was...

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

Verse novel

A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a...

to be shortlisted.

1999
1999 in literature
The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...

Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus (novel)
Eucalyptus is a novel by Australian novelist Murray Bail. The book won the 1999 Miles Franklin Award and the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.-Plot introduction:...

, Murray Bail
Murray Bail
Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...
Red Shoes, Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird
-Life:Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania.She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction. She has also written three...
The Golden Dress, Marion Halligan
Marion Halligan
Marion Mildred Halligan AM is an Australian writer and novelist. She was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and journalist before publishing her first short stories. Halligan has served as chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and...
Mr Darwin's Shooter
Mr Darwin's Shooter
Mr Darwin's Shooter is a 1998 novel by Roger McDonald. It describes the life of Syms Covington, manservant to Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle....

, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
Three Dollars
Three Dollars (novel)
Three Dollars is a novel by Australian writer Elliot Perlman, his first published novel. A movie of the same name based on the novel was released in 2005.-Plot summary:...

, Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...

1998
1998 in literature
The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....

Wrack, James Bradley
James Bradley (Australian writer)
James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer.His books include three novels and a book of poetry...
Jack Maggs
Jack Maggs
-Plot summary:Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. The story centres around Jack Maggs and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps , who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household.Maggs...

, Peter Carey
The Service of Clouds
The Service of Clouds
The Service of Clouds is a novel by Susan Hill....

, Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer is the author of a novel, The Service of Clouds and a novella, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She has been described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in Best Australian Stories 1999, as “the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature...
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
The Sound of One Hand Clapping is a 1997 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan. The title is adapted from the famous Zen kōan of Hakuin Ekaku. The Sound of One Hand Clapping was Flanagan's second novel.-Plot summary:...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
One for the Master, Dorothy Johnston
Dorothy Johnston
Dorothy Johnston is an Australian novelist.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field...
Lovesong, Elizabeth Jolley
Elizabeth Jolley
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...
Nightpictures, Rod Jones

1997
1997 in literature
The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...

The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow is Thea Astley's second last novel. It won The Age Book of the Year in 1996.-Plot summary:The novel is based on a violent event that took place on Palm Island, Queensland in 1930, in which the white Superintendent of the settlement, Robert Curry , ran amok,...

, Thea Astley
Thea Astley
Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
Night Letters, Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix
- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
The Drowner, Robert Drewe
Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
The Glade within the Grove
The Glade within the Grove
The Glade within the Grove is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Foster.-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1997: winner...

, David Foster
David Foster (novelist)
David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...
Oyster
Oyster (novel)
-Plot introduction:In Outer Maroo, a fictional town in the outback which doesn't appear on maps, outsiders disappear and there is a queerly pungent smell, the Old Fuckatoo...-Plot summary:...

, Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...
The Conversations at Curlow Creek
The Conversations At Curlow Creek
The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a historical novel written by the prominent Australian author David Malouf. It was first published in 1996 by the Random House publishing group.-Plot summary:...

, David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
Before I Wake, John Scott
John A. Scott
John Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....

1996
1996 in literature
The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."* In the United Kingdom, the first...

The White Garden, Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird
-Life:Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania.She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction. She has also written three...
The House in the Light, Beverley Farmer
Beverley Farmer
Beverley Anne Farmer is an Australian novelist and short story writer.Beverley Farmer was born in Melbourne. She was educated at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and the University of Melbourne where she graduated with a BA in 1960.She has worked in various jobs, mainly teaching and waitressing...
Bracelet Honeymyrtle, Judith Fox
Judith Fox (author)
Judith Fox is an Australian novelist. She grew up in Newcastle, attended the University of Technology, Sydney, and now works in publishing.-Awards and nominations:...
The Touchstone, Paul Horsfall
Highways to a War
Highways to a War
Highways to a War is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Christopher Koch.In an interview in 2000, Koch noted that this novel, and his later work Out of Ireland, formed a diptych called Beware of the Past.-Plot summary:...

, Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch
Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
Camille's Bread, Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Francis Lillian Lohrey, , in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a writer, and novelist. She completed her education at the University of Tasmania before taking up a scholarship at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. From 1988 to 1994 she lectured in writing and textual studies at the...
The Sitters, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...

1995
1995 in literature
The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....

The Hand That Signed the Paper, Helen Demidenko
Helen Darville
Helen Dale , also known as Helen Darville and Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer.While studying English literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, she wrote The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who become both bystanders and perpetrators...
Death of a River Guide
Death of a River Guide
Death of a River Guide is a 1994 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan. Death of a River Guide was Flanagan's first novel.-Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , National Fiction Award, 1996: winner...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
Dark Places
Dark Places
Dark Places is a 1973 British horror film directed by Don Sharp and starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Herbert Lom.-Plot:Dr. Mandeville and his wife Sarah try to locate two suitcases of money hidden on a large estate of one of his former patients by posing as a potential heir...

, Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published nine novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process....
A Mortality Tale, Jay Verney

1994
1994 in literature
The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search*Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...

The Grisly Wife
The Grisly Wife
The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."...

, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon is a book by David Malouf written in 1993. It won the inaugural IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award....

, David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
Water Man, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....

1993
1993 in literature
The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....

Vanishing Points, Thea Astley
Thea Astley
Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
After China, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
Cosmo Cosmolino, Helen Garner
Helen Garner
Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.-Life:Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and then The Hermitage in Geelong...
The Last Magician, Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...
Shearers' Motel, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
The Ancestor Game
The Ancestor Game
The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1993: winner*Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 1993: winner...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...

1992
1992 in literature
The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Ben Aaronovitch - Transit*Julia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents*Paul Auster - Leviathan*Iain Banks - The Crow Road...

Double Wolf, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
Our Sunshine
Our Sunshine
Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel based on the life of Ned Kelly, a 19th-century Irish-Australian bushranger. The novel was written by Robert Drewe and was the basis for the 2003 film Ned Kelly.-First edition:...

, Robert Drewe
Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
To the Burning City, Alan Gould
Alan Gould
Alan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist and poet.Born in London Alan Gould's family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of...
The Second Bridegroom, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963...

, Tim Winton
Tim Winton
Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

1991
1991 in literature
The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....

Longleg
Longleg (novel)
Longleg is a 1990 novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1991: shortlisted*NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1991: joint winner...

, Glenda Adams
Glenda Adams
Glenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
Taking Shelter, Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson
Jessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...
Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley
Thea Astley
Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
The Bluebird Café, Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird
-Life:Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania.She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction. She has also written three...
The Country Without Music, Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Hasluck
The Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.-Early life:...
The Great World
The Great World
The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.-Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , National Fiction Award, 1992: winner*Prix Femina , Best Foreign Novel, 1991: winner...

, David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

1990
1990 in literature
The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...

Company of Images, Janine Burke
Janine Burke
Janine Burke, is an author, art historian, biographer and novelist. She has also curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently, Dr Burke holds a research fellowship at Monash University....
Oceana Fine
Oceana Fine
Oceana Fine is a 1989 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Tom Flood.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1990: winner*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 1990: winner...

, Tom Flood
Tom Flood
Tom Flood is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia....
Maestro
Maestro (novel)
Maestro is a 1989 novel written by Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. It is a bildungsroman which deals with the themes of art and life....

, Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....
Avenue of Eternal Peace, Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose
-Biography:Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990...
Smyrna, Tony Maniaty
I for Isobel, Amy Witting
Amy Witting
Amy Witting was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".-Life:Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was...

1989
1989 in literature
The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...

Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.-Plot introduction:...

, Peter Carey
Captivity Captive, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw
Building on Sand, David Parker
Charades, Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...

1988
1988 in literature
The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye*J.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...

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

1987
1987 in literature
The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...

Dancing on Coral
Dancing on Coral
Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1987: winner*New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 1987: winner-Notes:...

, Glenda Adams
Glenda Adams
Glenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
Holden's Performance, Murray Bail
Murray Bail
Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...
Truant State, Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Hasluck
The Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.-Early life:...
Bloodfather, David Ireland
David Ireland (author)
David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....
Home is the Sailor, Nancy Phelan
Nancy Phelan
Nancy Phelan was an Australian writer who published over 25 books, including novels, biographies, memoirs, travel books and a cookbook...

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
2011 in literature
The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.*Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...

Rocks in the Belly, John Bauer
The Good Daughter, Honey Brown
The Mary Smokes Boys, Patrick Holland
Patrick Holland
Patrick Holland is an Australian novelist, short story writer and essayist. His novel The Long Road of the Junkmailer won the 2005 Queensland Premier's Award for Best Emerging Author and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book South East Asia/South Pacific...
The Piper's Son, Melina Marchetta
Melina Marchetta
Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. She is the middle child of three daughters. Melina is best known as the author of Looking For Alibrandi. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004.- Biography :Melina Marchettaborn in Sydney on 25...
When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
Time's Long Ruin, Stephen Orr
That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance is the third novel by Western Australian author Kim Scott. It was first published in 2010 by Picador and will be published in the UK, US and Canada in 2012 by Bloomsbury...

, Kim Scott
Kim Scott
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
The Legacy, Kirsten Tranter
Bereft, Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is an Australian author of crime fiction, short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India, South-East Asia, South America, North America, and West Africa...

Figurehead, Patrick Allington
Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize....

, Peter Carey
The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
Boy on a Wire, Jon Doust
Jon Doust
Jon Doust is a comedian, writer and professional speaker from Western Australia.Doust was born in Bridgetown, he worked in farming, retailing and journalism before pursuing a career in comedy and writing....
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
Sons of the Rumour, David Foster
David Foster (novelist)
David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...
Siddon Rock, Glenda Guest
Glenda Guest
Glenda Guest is an Australian novelist.Her novel, Siddon Rock, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel.-Life:She grew up in Western Australia.She was at Varuna, The Writers' House....
Butterfly
Butterfly (novel)
Butterfly is a 2009 young adult fiction novel by Sonya Hartnett about the troubled adolescence of Plum Coyle, set in 1980s Australian suburbia....

, Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...
The People's Train, Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...
Lovesong, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...
Truth, Peter Temple
Peter Temple
Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...

The Pages, Murray Bail
Murray Bail
Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...
Wanting
Wanting (novel)
-Plot summary:Wanting cuts between two stories based on real historical figures under the central theme of 'wanting', and is set in both nineteenth century Tasmania and Britain...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
Addition, Toni Jordan
One Foot Wrong, Sofie Laguna
Ice, Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights...
Fugitive Blue, Claire Thomas
A Fraction of the Whole
A Fraction of the Whole
A Fraction of the Whole is a 2008 novel by Steve Toltz. It follows three generations of the eccentric Dean family in Australia and the people who surround them.-Jasper Dean:...

, Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
-Life and works:Toltz attended Knox Grammar School, Killara High School and graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security...
The Devil's Eye, Ian Townsend
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
Breath
Breath (novel)
Breath is the twentieth book and the eighth novel by Australian novelist Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany....

, Tim Winton
Tim Winton
Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

The Fern Tattoo
The Fern Tattoo
The Fern Tattoo is a 2007 novel by the Australian author David Brooks.-Plot summary:Benedict's mother has recently died; after the funeral he receives a phone call from Mrs. Darling, a friend of his mother's. Benedict visits the old woman in the countryside where she tells him various tales that...

, David Brooks
David Brooks (author)
David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...
The Time We Have Taken
The Time We Have Taken
The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s...

, Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
Love Without Hope
Love Without Hope
Love Without Hope is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.- Epigraph :"You are not dying because you are ill. You are dying because you are alive." - Montaigne- Awards and nominations :*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...
Sorry
Sorry (novel)
-Themes:The novel explores the major themes of Australian Aboriginal-White relations, the isolation and despair of farm life, the Stolen Generations, and life in World War II in Australia.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
The Widow and Her Hero
The Widow and Her Hero
The Widow and Her Hero is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II.-Awards and nominations:* Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted...

, Tom Keneally
The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch
Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
Landscape of Farewell
Landscape of Farewell
Landscape of Farewell is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards and nominations:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
Secrets of the Sea, Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and...

Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.-Awards and nominations:...

, Peter Carey
Silent Parts, John Charalambous
The Unknown Terrorist
The Unknown Terrorist
The Unknown Terrorist is the 2006 fourth novel by the Australian novelist Richard Flanagan.It was described by the New York Times' Michiko Kakatani as "an armature for a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world".-External links:*...

, Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
Beyond the Break, Sandra Hall
Dreams of Speaking
Dreams of Speaking
-Themes:The novel explores the themes of the creative writing process, memory, loneliness and cross-cultural friendships.-Epigraph:"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking" - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet-Awards:...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
The Unexpected Elements of Love, Kate Legge
Careless
Careless (novel)
-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted...

, Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology...
Carpentaria
Carpentaria (novel)
Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007....

, Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria....

Knitting, Anne Bartlett
The Garden Book
The Garden Book
-Epigraph:Also a used bookstore, plant and gift store and coffeeshop in the city of San Diego, Calif. for at least a ten-year period between 1990 and finally closing in 2003.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2006: shortlisted...

, Brian Castro
Brian Castro
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
The Secret River
The Secret River
The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical fiction about an early 19th century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what may have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people. The book is also one of careful...

, Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published nine novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process....
An Accidental Tourist, Stephen Lang
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
The Ballad of Desmond Kale is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald.-Dedication:For Lorna McDonaldwith love and thanksfor gifts of conversation, friendship, and exampleover a lifetime-External links:Reviews**...

, Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
Prochownik's Dream
Prochownik's Dream
Prochownik's Dream is a 2005 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Notes:*Dedication: "For Stephanie. For the memory of Max Blatt...

, Alex Miller
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
Sunnyside
Sunnyside (novel)
-Plot introduction:The novel is about Charlie Chaplin and the rise of Hollywood, celebrity and the American Empire during World War I.-Explanation of the novel's title:The title of the novel refers to the 1919 Charlie Chaplin film also named Sunnyside....

, Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.-Biography:...
A Case of Knives, Peter Rose
The Broken Shore
The Broken Shore
The Broken Shore is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.-Plot Summary:The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective. Following serious physical injuries he is posted to his hometown where he begins the process of rebuilding...

, Peter Temple
Peter Temple
Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.-Biography:Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia...
Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
The Wing of Night
The Wing of Night
-Notes:*"Dedication: For Tom"*Epigraph: "My own taste has always been for unwritten history and my present business is with the reverse of the picture." Henry James.-Awards:*Waverley Library Award for Literature, The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize, 2006: winner...

, Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker is an Australian writer. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She is now Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia...

Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong is an Australian journalist and novelist. Over an eight year period she worked for the ABC on radio programs including AM, PM and The World Today where she won a Walkley Award...
The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed is a 2004 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the second in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and followed by The Time We Have Taken.-Reviews:**...

, Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
Backwaters, Robert Engwarda
The Ghost Writer, John Harwood
John Harwood (writer)
John Harwood was born in Hobart, Tasmania and is an Australian poet, literary critic and novelist.Educated at the University of Tasmania and Cambridge University, Harwood has worked as an academic at Flinders University in South Australia...
The Broken Book, Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson (Australian author)
Susan Johnson is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. She has been a full-time writer since 1985, with occasional stints of journalism at Australian newspapers, journals and magazines.- Personal background :...
Sixty Lights
Sixty Lights
-Awards:*Man Booker Prize, 2004: longlisted*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2004: winner*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize, 2004: winner...

, Gail Jones
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
A Private Man, Malcolm Knox
The Philosopher's Doll, Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Francis Lillian Lohrey, , in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a writer, and novelist. She completed her education at the University of Tasmania before taking up a scholarship at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. From 1988 to 1994 she lectured in writing and textual studies at the...
The White Earth
The White Earth
The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan.The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009.-Notes:...

, Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...
I Have Kissed Your Lips, Gerard Windsor
Gerard Windsor
Gerard Charles Windsor is an Australian author and literary critic. He was dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in both 1961 and 1962, where, like Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. He trained as a Jesuit from the age of 18 to 24. He studied Arts at the Australian National...
The Submerged Cathedral
The Submerged Cathedral (novel)
-Dedication:"For my parents, John and Felicia, whose love story inspired this one and for Sean, with gratitude for ours."-Awards:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2005: shortlisted...

, Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is an Australian novelist.Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels. She currently lives in Sydney. She has a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a BA from Charles Sturt University. Her new novel,...
The Last Ride, Denise Young