A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60,000
is the third instalment of an auto-fictional series exploring the life of a young Muslim boy in western Sydney named Bani Adam. In The Other Half of You, which follows on from the Miles Franklin-shortlisted The Lebs and Ahmed’s first novel The Tribe, Bani is now a man; the book takes the form of his “body bruising, soul-searing confessional letter to a child”, according to the judges, who hailed it as “the howl of an Australian voice striving to be heard”.
The Miles Franklin is judged by a panel including literary critics Bernadette Brennan and James Ley, literary scholar Mridula Nath Chakraborty and author and editor Elfie Shiosaki.
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