Published: August 22, 2018
The shortlist, including books by Michelle de Kretser, Kim Scott and Gerald Murnane, is a portrait of a diverse Australia
The Miles Franklin award is famously for “a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases”. That’s a very broad palette, yet for most of the award’s existence – 1957 to the present – it has recognised a rather narrow field of “Australian life”.
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