Miles Franklin Award

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar.

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The award, now worth $42,000(AUD), was bequeathed by the will of the Australian novelist Miles Franklin, for a ?published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases?. All entries for the Award must have been published in the previous calendar year.

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The Miles Franklin Literary Award not only rewards Australian authors but, as Frank Moorhouse said in his winner?s acceptance speech on 5 June 2001, it also 'honours the great art of story telling.'

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