This year’s shortlist is a celebration of innovation and diversity in Australian fiction.
Six wildly varied novels have been unveiled in this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist. Among the authors are four first-timers, one former winner and one who has been shortlisted twice before.
The five-person panel of judges said it had been “an extraordinary year” for the prize, first awarded in 1957. “The judges have been awed by the ambitious sweep and range of the novels,” they said in a statement. “The writers have distinguished themselves with their experimentation with techniques, forms and narrative styles. The six books hold a mirror to the expressions and excitements of contemporary Australian writing.
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