The Ancestor Game
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The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award
winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller
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Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winning novel by the Australian author 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...
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Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1993: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 1993: winner
- NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1993: shortlisted
- FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, 1992: joint winner