Miles Franklin Award Winners by the Year
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
Shop Now2006 Winner Miles Franklin Award
The Ballad Of Desmond Kale
by Roger McDonald
2002 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Dirt Music
by Tim Winton
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
Shop Now2000 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Drylands
by Thea Astley
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
Shop Now1998 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Jack Maggs
by Peter Carey
1997 Winner Miles Franklin Award
The Glade Within the Grove
by David Foster
1996 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Highways To a War
by Koch Christopher
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
by Alex Miller
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
Shop Now1991 Winner Miles Franklin Award
The Great World
by David Malouf
1990 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Oceana Fine
by Tom Flood
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
Shop Now1987 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Dancing On Coral
by Glenda Adams
1984 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Shallows
by Tim Winton
1982 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Just Relations
by Rodney Hall
1979 Winner Miles Franklin Award
A Woman Of the Future
by David Ireland
1978 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Tirra Lirra By the River
by Jessica Anderson
1977 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Swords and Crowns and Rings
by Ruth Park
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
Shop Now1974 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Mango Tree, The
by Ronald McKie
1971 Winner Miles Franklin Award
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
by David Ireland
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
Shop Now1969 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Clean Straw For Nothing
by George Johnston
1968 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Three Cheers For the Paraclete
by Thomas Keneally
1967 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Bring Larks and Heroes
by Thomas Keneally
1965 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Slow Natives
by Thea Astley
1964 Winner Miles Franklin Award
My Brother Jack
by George Johnston
1962 Winner Miles Franklin Award
The Well Dressed Explorer
by Thea Astley
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
Shop Now1959 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
Shop Now1958 Winner Miles Franklin Award
To the Islands
by Randolph Stow
1957 Winner Miles Franklin Award
Voss
by Patrick White