The Miles Franklin Award was first awarded in 1957.This year's shortlist is notable for spanning from early-career to established authors, with three debut novels (Andrew Pippos's Lucky's, Madeleine Watts's The Inland Sea and Daniel Davis Wood's At the Edge of the Solid World) up against the fourth novel by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga, and the eighth book by award-winning author Amanda Lohrey. The Miles Franklin shortlist for 2021 was announced on Wednesday: six novels by Australian writers that are deemed by the judges to be of high literary merit in representing "Australian life in any of its phases".īesides being Australia's most prestigious literary prize, it's also one of the richest, with the winning author receiving $60,000.
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