Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist & Winners
Six authors were selected for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
Australia's most prestigious literary award.
- Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains (Puncher & Wattmann)
- Jen Craig, Wall (Puncher & Wattmann)
- Andre Dao, Anam (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House)
- Gregory Day, The Bell of the World (Transit Lounge)
- Sanya Rushdi, Hospital (Giramondo Publishing)
- Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy (Giramondo Publishing) THE WINNER
Wall by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist
"Every new novel by Jen Craig is cause for celebration. They are a reminder that literature is still being written in the English language. In Wall, her brilliant third novel, Jen Craig deepens her proliferative style of self-examination as her narrator tries to contend with that most heart wrenching of ...Show more
Hospital by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
The Bell of the World by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist
**Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024** When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything the ...Show more
Only Sound Remains by Hossein Asgari
$29.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to Adelaide to visit him. During his short stay, Ismael tells Saeed the s ...Show more
Anam: Shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin and PM's Literary Awards by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Award 2024 Shortlist
Winner - 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecologica ...Show more
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