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The Miles Franklin Award 1957 - 2002. The Miles Franklin award was set up under the terms of the will of the late Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the famed Australian author who died in September 1954. Given annually for the novel or play of the highest literary merit, presenting aspects of Australian life, and published during the preceding year.

 

2002


2001 "Dark Palace", Frank Moorhouse

2000 "Drylands", Thea Astley "Benang", Kim Scott

1999 "Eucalyptus", Murray Bail

1998 "Jack Maggs", Peter Carey

1997 "The Glade within the Grove", David Foster

1996 "Highways to a War", Christopher Koch

1995 "The Hand That Signed the Paper", Helen Demidenko

1994 "The Grisly Wife", Rodney Hall

1993 "The Ancestor Game", Alex Miller

1992 "Cloudstreet", Tim Winton

1991 "The Great World", David Malouf

1990 "Oceana Fine", Tom Flood

1989 "Oscar and Lucinda", Peter Carey

Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.

1987 "Dancing on Coral", Glenda Adams

1986 "The Well", Elizabeth Jolley

1985 "The Doubleman", Christopher Koch

1984 "Shallows", Tim Winton

1983 No award.

1982 "Just Relations", Rodney Hall

1981 "Bliss", Peter Carey

1980 "The Impersonators", Jessica Anderson

1979 "A Woman of the Future", David Ireland

1978 "Tirra Lirra by the River", Jessica Anderson

1977 "Swords and Crowns and Rings", Ruth Park

1976 "The Glass Canoe", David Ireland

1975 "Poor Fellow My Country", Xavier Herbert

1974 "The Mango Tree", Ronald McKie

1973 No award.

1972 "The Acolyte", Thea Astley

1971 "The Unknown Industrial Prisoner", David Ireland

1970 "A Horse of Air", Dal Stivens

1969 "Clean Straw for Nothing", George Johnston

1968"Three Cheers for the Paraclete", Thomas Keneally

1967 "Bring Larks and Heroes", Thomas Keneally

1966 "Trap", Peter Mathers

1965 "The Slow Natives", Thea Astley

1964 "My Brother Jack", George Johnston

1963 "Careful He Might Hear You", Sumner Locke Elliott

1962 "The Well Dressed Explorer", Thea Astley "The Cupboard Under the Stairs," George Turner

1961 "Riders in the Chariot", Patrick White

1960 "The Irishman", Elizabeth O'Conner

1959 "The Big Fellow", Vance Palmer

1958 "To the Islands", Randolph Stow

1957 "Voss", Patrick White