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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. |
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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 |