Miles Franklin Award Winners by the Year

That Deadman Dance

2011 Winner Miles Franklin Award

That Deadman Dance

by Kim Scott

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Truth

2010 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Truth

by Peter Temple

PETER TEMPLE has worked extensively as a journalist and editor for newspapers and magazines in several countries. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for his novels, and won the world's most prestigious crime-writing prize, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger. His… read more

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Breath

2009 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Breath

by Tim Winton

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2007 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Carpentaria

by Wright Alexis

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The Ballad Of Desmond Kale

2006 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Ballad Of Desmond Kale

by Roger McDonald

"Miles Franklin literary award 2006 winner"--Cover. "A Vintage book"--T.p. verso.

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White Earth

2005 Winner Miles Franklin Award

White Earth

by Andrew McGahan

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The Great Fire

2004 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Great Fire

by Shirley Hazzard

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Dirt Music

2002 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Dirt Music

by Tim Winton

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.

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Benang

2000 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Benang

by Kim Scott

Benang (subtitled "From the Heart") 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. Kunhikrishnan wrote: "For writing… read more

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Drylands

2000 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Drylands

by Thea Astley

Drylands (1999) (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with Benang by Kim Scott.

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Eucalyptus

1999 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Eucalyptus

by Murray Bail

The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the ma… read more

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Jack Maggs

1998 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Jack Maggs

by Peter Carey

Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Peter Carey.

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The Glade Within the Grove

1997 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Glade Within the Grove

by David Foster

The Glade Within the Grove is a 1996 novel by David Foster. It won the 1997 Miles Franklin Award.

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1996 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Highways To a War

by Koch Christopher

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.

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The Grisly Wife

1994 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Grisly Wife

by Rodney Hall

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. " This novel is the third book in Th… read more

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The Ancestor Game

1993 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Ancestor Game

by Alex Miller

The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.

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Cloudstreet

1992 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Cloudstreet

by Tim Winton

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, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963. It was the recipient of a Mitchell Bur… read more

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The Great World

1991 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Great World

by David Malouf

The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.

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Oceana Fine

1990 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Oceana Fine

by Tom Flood

Oceana Fine is a 1989 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Tom Flood.

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Oscar and Lucinda

1989 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastr… read more

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Dancing On Coral

1987 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Dancing On Coral

by Glenda Adams

Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.

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The Well

1986 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Well

by Elizabeth Jolley

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Shallows

1984 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Shallows

by Tim Winton

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 (or above?) "Moby-Dick."

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Just Relations

1982 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Just Relations

by Rodney Hall

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.

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Bliss

1981 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Bliss

by Peter Carey

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A Woman Of the Future

1979 Winner Miles Franklin Award

A Woman Of the Future

by David Ireland

A Woman of the Future is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.

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Tirra Lirra By the River

1978 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Tirra Lirra By the River

by Jessica Anderson

Tirra Lirra By the River is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson.

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Swords and Crowns and Rings

1977 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Swords and Crowns and Rings

by Ruth Park

Swords and Crowns and Rings is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Ruth Park.

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Poor Fellow My Country

1975 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Poor Fellow My Country

by Xavier Herbert

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 … read more

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Mango Tree, The

1974 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Mango Tree, The

by Ronald McKie

The Mango Tree is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.

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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

1971 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

by David Ireland

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.

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A Horse Of Air

1970 Winner Miles Franklin Award

A Horse Of Air

by Dal Stivens

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, the… read more

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Clean Straw For Nothing

1969 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Clean Straw For Nothing

by George Johnston

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.

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Three Cheers For the Paraclete

1968 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Three Cheers For the Paraclete

by Thomas Keneally

Three Cheers for the Paraclete is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally.

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Bring Larks and Heroes

1967 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Bring Larks and Heroes

by Thomas Keneally

Bring Larks and Heroes is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally.

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Slow Natives

1965 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Slow Natives

by Thea Astley

The Slow Natives (1965) is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley, the first of her record number of four wins. It also won the 1965 Moomba Award.

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My Brother Jack

1964 Winner Miles Franklin Award

My Brother Jack

by George Johnston

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. The other books in the trilogy are Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay.

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The Well Dressed Explorer

1962 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Well Dressed Explorer

by Thea Astley

The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) 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.

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Riders In the Chariot

1961 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Riders In the Chariot

by Patrick White

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. It also won the 1965 Gold Medal of the Australian Literature So… read more

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1959 Winner Miles Franklin Award

The Big Fellow

by Vance Palmer

The Big Fellow is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank O'Connor. The Big Fellow covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most c… read more

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To the Islands

1958 Winner Miles Franklin Award

To the Islands

by Randolph Stow

To the Islands is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Randolph Stow.

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Voss

1957 Winner Miles Franklin Award

Voss

by Patrick White

PATRICK WHITE (1912-1990), an Australian novelist and playwright, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. His novel The Vivisector was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

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