Miles Franklin Award

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award.<ref>The Miles Franklin Literary Award Template:Webarchive, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Australia).</ref> As of 2025, the award is valued at A$60,000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>About the award Template:Webarchive, official website.</ref>

Winners

1957–1969

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
1957	Patrick White	Voss	Eyre & Spottiswoode	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1958	Randolph Stow	To the Islands	Macdonald	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1959	Vance Palmer	The Big Fellow	Angus and Robertson	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1960	Elizabeth O'Conner	The Irishman	Angus and Robertson	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1961	Patrick White	Riders in the Chariot	Eyre & Spottiswoode	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1962	Thea Astley	The Well Dressed Explorer	Angus & Robertson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	George Turner	The Cupboard Under the Stairs	Cassell
1963	Sumner Locke Elliott	Careful, He Might Hear You	Harper and Row	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1964	George Johnston	My Brother Jack	Collins	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1965	Thea Astley	The Slow Natives	Angus and Robertson	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1966	Peter Mathers	Trap	Cassell	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1967	Thomas Keneally	Bring Larks and Heroes	Cassell	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1968	Thomas Keneally	Three Cheers for the Paraclete	Angus and Robertson	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1969	George Johnston	Clean Straw for Nothing	Collins	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1970–1979

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
1970	Dal Stivens	A Horse of Air	Angus and Robertson	<ref>"Award to Stivens", The Canberra Times, 25 March 1971, p3</ref>
1971	David Ireland	The Unknown Industrial Prisoner	Angus and Robertson	<ref>"Award", The Canberra Times, 29 March 1972, p3</ref>
1972	Thea Astley	The Acolyte	Angus and Robertson	<ref>"Sydney Writer Wins Award for Novel", The Canberra Times, 11 April 1973, p3</ref>
1973	No award			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1974	Ronald McKie	The Mango Tree	Collins	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1975	Xavier Herbert	Poor Fellow My Country	Fontana Books	<ref>"In Brief : Literature", The Canberra Times, 28 April 1976, p3</ref>
1976	David Ireland	The Glass Canoe	Macmillan	<ref>"Author's third Miles Franklin", The Canberra Times, 3 June 1980, p3</ref>
1977	Ruth Park	Swords and Crowns and Rings	Nelson Books	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1978	Jessica Anderson	Tirra Lirra by the River	Macmillan	<ref name=BetterR />
1979	David Ireland	A Woman of the Future	Penguin Books	<ref name=BetterR />

1980–1989

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
1980	Jessica Anderson	The Impersonators	Macmillan	<ref>"Novelist Wins Second Award", The Canberra Times, 4 June 1981, p3</ref>
1981	Peter Carey	Bliss	Faber and Faber	<ref>"Miles Franklin prize", The Canberra Times, 27 May 1982, p7</ref>
1982	Rodney Hall	Just Relations	Penguin Books	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1983	No award			<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1984	Tim Winton	Shallows	Allen & Unwin	<ref>"Franklin award to Winton", The Canberra Times, 15 May 1985, p24</ref>
1985	Christopher Koch	The Doubleman	Chatto & Windus	<ref>"Koch wins literary award", The Canberra Times, 14 May 1986, p7</ref>
1986	Elizabeth Jolley	The Well	Viking Press	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1987	Glenda Adams	Dancing on Coral	Viking Press	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1988	No award		Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.
1989	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	University of Queensland Press	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1990–1999

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
1990	Tom Flood	Oceana Fine	Allen & Unwin	<ref>"Second major prize for book", The Canberra Times, 22 June 1990, p16</ref>
1991	David Malouf	The Great World	Chatto & Windus	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1992	Tim Winton	Cloudstreet	Penguin Books	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1993	Alex Miller	The Ancestor Game	Penguin Books	<ref>"Miller wins Miles Franklin", The Canberra Times, 26 May 1993, p5</ref>
1994	Rodney Hall	The Grisly Wife	Macmillan	<ref name="MFA1994" />
1995	Helen Demidenko	The Hand That Signed the Paper	Allen & Unwin	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1996	Christopher Koch	Highways to a War	Heinemann	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1997	David Foster	The Glade Within the Grove	Vintage	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
1998	Peter Carey	Jack Maggs	University of Queensland Press	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
1999	Murray Bail	Eucalyptus	Random House	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />

2000–2009

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
2000	Thea Astley	Drylands	Penguin Books	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
	Kim Scott	Benang	Fremantle Press	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2001	Frank Moorhouse	Dark Palace	Knopf	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2002	Tim Winton	Dirt Music	Picador	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2003	Alex Miller	Journey to the Stone Country	Allen & Unwin	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2004	Shirley Hazzard	The Great Fire	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2005	Andrew McGahan	The White Earth	Allen & Unwin	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2006	Roger McDonald	The Ballad of Desmond Kale	Vintage	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2007	Alexis Wright	Carpentaria	Giramondo	<ref name="AustlitMFA" />
2008	Steven Carroll	The Time We Have Taken	HarperCollins Publishers	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2009	Tim Winton	Breath	Hamish Hamilton	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2010–2019

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
2010	Peter Temple	Truth	Text Publishing	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2011	Kim Scott	That Deadman Dance	Picador	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2012	Anna Funder	All That I Am	Hamish Hamilton	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Michelle de Kretser	Questions of Travel	Allen & Unwin	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Evie Wyld	All the Birds, Singing	Random House	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	Sofie Laguna	The Eye of the Sheep	Allen & Unwin	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	A. S. Patrić	Black Rock White City	Transit Lounge	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2017	Josephine Wilson	Extinctions	UWA Publishing	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2018	Michelle de Kretser	The Life to Come	Allen & Unwin	<ref name="mfa2018">Template:Cite news</ref>
2019	Melissa Lucashenko	Too Much Lip	University of Queensland Press	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2020–

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
2020	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House	<ref name="2020winner">Template:Cite news</ref>
2021	Amanda Lohrey	The Labyrinth	Text Publishing	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Jennifer Down	Bodies of Light	Text Publishing	<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>
2023	Shankari Chandran	Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens	Ultimo Press	<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref>
2024	Alexis Wright	Praiseworthy	Giramondo	<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref>
2025	Siang Lu	Ghost Cities	University of Queensland Press	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Controversies

Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel Grand Days because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1995 winner Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for The Hand That Signed the Paper and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian descent and said it was fiction based on family history. Writer David Marr, who presented the award to her, said that revelations about her true background did not "alter a single thing about the quality of the story, it knocks completely out of the water her answers to critics who said it was not historically accurate, that she knows because of direct family experience, which appears to be complete bull----."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Even before the hoax was revealed, Darville’s book was considered anti-Semitic and justified the genocide of Jewish people.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was also later revealed that she plagiarised from multiple sources.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 2004, judges of the award resigned due to what they viewed as the commodification of the awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2022 longlisted writer John Hughes was accused of plagiarising significant sections of his 2021 book The Dogs from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich's nonfiction book The Unwomanly Face of War. Nearly 60 similarities and identical sentences were found in a comparison of Hughes' novel and the English version of Alexievich's book. The Guardian newspaper also found similarities between incidents described in the books, including the central scene from which The Dogs takes its title.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Further investigation found other examples of plagiarism in the novel and that Hughes copied sections of classic texts including The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina without acknowledging the original source.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The book was subsequently withdrawn from competition.

The Stella Prize was created in 2013 as a reaction to the supposed under-representation of women as winners of literary prizes, in particular the 2011 Miles Franklin Award shortlist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, since 2013, only three men have won the Miles Franklin Award.

Repeat winners

• (4) Thea Astley: 1962, 1965, 1972, 2000
• (4) Tim Winton: 1984, 1992, 2002, 2009
• (3) Peter Carey: 1981, 1989, 1998
• (3) David Ireland: 1971, 1976, 1979
• (2) Jessica Anderson: 1978, 1980
• (2) Rodney Hall: 1982, 1994
• (2) Thomas Keneally: 1967, 1968
• (2) Michelle de Kretser: 2013, 2018
• (2) George Johnston: 1964, 1969
• (2) Christopher Koch: 1985, 1996
• (2) Alex Miller: 1993, 2003
• (2) Kim Scott: 2000, 2011
• (2) Patrick White: 1957, 1961
• (2) Alexis Wright: 2007, 2024<ref name=":3" />

Shortlisted works

Shortlisted titles are only shown for the years 1987 onwards. No record has yet been found for any shortlists being released prior to that year. Winners are listed in bold type.

1980s

In 1989, the date changed from the year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was named in 1988.

Miles Franklin Award honorees (1987–1989)

Year	Author	Title	Result
1987	Template:Sortname	Dancing on Coral	Winner <ref name="MFA1987" />
	Template:Sortname	Holden's Performance	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Truant State
	Template:Sortname	Bloodfather
	Template:Sortname	Home Is the Sailor
1989	Template:Sortname	Oscar and Lucinda	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Captivity Captive	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Out of the Line of Fire
	Template:Sortname	Building on Sand
	Template:Sortname	Charades

1990s

Miles Franklin Award honorees (1990–1999)

Year	Author	Title	Result
1990	Template:Sortname	Oceana Fine	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Company of Images	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Avenue of Eternal Peace
	Template:Sortname	I for Isobel
	Template:Sortname	Maestro
	Template:Sortname	Smyrna
1991	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Longleg	Shortlist<ref name="CT91" />
	Template:Sortname	Reaching Tin River
	Template:Sortname	Taking Shelter
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1992	Template:Sortname	Cloudstreet	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Double-Wolf	Shortlist<ref name="CT1992">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CT1992S">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Our Sunshine
	Template:Sortname	The Second Bridegroom
	Template:Sortname	To the Burning City
1993	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	After China	Shortlist<ref name="CT1993">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Cosmo Cosmolino
	Template:Sortname	Shearers' Motel
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Vanishing Points
1994	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Remembering Babylon	Shortlist<ref name="MFA1994" />
	Template:Sortname	Water Man
1995	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref name = ct1995>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Places
	Template:Sortname	Death of a River Guide
1996	Template:Sortname	Highways to a War	Winner<ref name="MFA1996" />
	Template:Sortname	Bracelet Honeymyrtle	Shortlist<ref name="MFA1996s">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Camille's Bread
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1997	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Before I Wake	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Night Letters
	Template:Sortname	Oyster
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1998	Template:Sortname	Jack Maggs	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Lovesong	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Nightpictures
	Template:Sortname	One for the Master
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Wrack
1999	Template:Sortname	Eucalyptus	Winner<ref name="MFA1998-99" />
	Template:Sortname	Mr Darwin's Shooter	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Red Shoes
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Three Dollars

2010s

Miles Franklin Literary Award honorees (2010–2019)

Year	Author	Title	Result
2010	Template:Sortname	Truth	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Butterfly
	Template:Sortname	Jasper Jones
	Template:Sortname	Lovesong
2011	Template:Sortname	That Deadman Dance	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Bereft	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	When Colts Ran
2012	Template:Sortname	All That I Am	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Blood	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Cold Light
	Template:Sortname	Foal's Bread
	Template:Sortname	Past the Shallows
2013	Template:Sortname	Questions of Travel	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Floundering
	Template:Sortname	Mateship with Birds
2014	Template:Sortname	All the Birds, Singing	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Night Guest
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Eyrie
	Template:Sortname	My Beautiful Enemy
2015	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	After Darkness
	Template:Sortname	Golden Boys
	Template:Sortname	Tree Palace
2016	Template:Sortname	Black Rock White City	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Hope Farm
	Template:Sortname	Leap
	Template:Sortname	Salt Creek
2017	Template:Sortname	Extinctions	Winner<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Their Brilliant Careers
	Template:Sortname	Waiting
2018	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Border Districts
	Template:Sortname	No More Boats
	Template:Sortname	Storyland
	Template:Sortname	Taboo
2019	Template:Sortname	Too Much Lip	Winner<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Dyschronia

2020s

Miles Franklin Literary Award honorees (2020–present)

Year	Author	Title	Result
2020	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Exploded View	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	No One
	Template:Sortname	Islands
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2021	Amanda Lohrey	Template:Sortname	Winner<ref name=":0" />
	Template:Sortname	Amnesty	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Lucky’s
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2022	Template:Sortname	Bodies of Light	Winner<ref name=":1" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Scary Monsters
	Template:Sortname	One Hundred Days
	Michael Winkler	Grimmish
2023	Template:Sortname	Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens	Winner<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Hopeless Kingdom	Shortlist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Limberlost
	Template:Sortname	Cold Enough for Snow
	Template:Sortname	The Lovers
	Template:Sortname	Iris
2024	Template:Sortname	Praiseworthy	Winner<ref name=":3" />
	Template:Sortname	Only Sound Remains	Shortlist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Wall
	Template:Sortname	Anam
	Template:Sortname	The Bell of the World
	Template:Sortname	Hospital
2025	Template:Sortname	Ghost Cities	Winner<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Chinese Postman	Shortlist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Theory & Practice
	Template:Sortname	Dirt Poor Islanders
	Template:Sortname	Compassion
	Template:Sortname	Highway 13

Longlisted works

Longlisted titles are only shown for the years 2005 onwards. That was the first year that such a list was released by the judging panel. The number of works included on the longlist varies from year to year.

2005–2009

2005<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
• The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
• Backwaters, Robert Engwerda
• The Ghost Writer, John Harwood
• The Broken Book, Susan Johnson
• Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
• A Private Man, Malcolm Knox
• The Philosopher's Doll, Amanda Lohrey
• The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
• I Have Kissed Your Lips, Gerard Windsor
• The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood
• The Last Ride, Denise Young

2006<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Knitting, Anne Bartlett
• The Garden Book, Brian Castro
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• An Accidental Tourist, Stephen Lang
• The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
• Prochownik's Dream, Alex Miller
• Sunnyside, Joanna Murray-Smith
• A Case of Knives, Peter Rose
• The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
• Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
• Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas
• The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker

2007<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey
• Silent Parts, John Charalambous
• The Unknown Terrorist, Richard Flanagan
• Beyond the Break, Sandra Hall
• Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
• The Unexpected Elements of Love, Kate Legge
• Careless, Deborah Robertson
• Carpentaria, Alexis Wright

2008<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks
• The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
• Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall
• Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital
• Sorry, Gail Jones
• The Widow and Her Hero, Thomas Keneally
• The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
• Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller
• Secrets of the Sea, Nicholas Shakespeare

2009<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• The Pages, Murray Bail
• Wanting, Richard Flanagan
• Addition, Toni Jordan
• One Foot Wrong, Sofie Laguna
• Ice, Louis Nowra
• Fugitive Blue, Claire Thomas
• A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
• The Devil's Eye, Ian Townsend
• The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
• Breath, Tim Winton

2010–2019

2010<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Figurehead, Patrick Allington
• Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
• The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
• Boy on a Wire, Jon Doust
• The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
• Sons of the Rumour, David Foster
• Siddon Rock, Glenda Guest
• Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett
• The People's Train, Thomas Keneally
• Lovesong, Alex Miller
• Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
• Truth, Peter Temple

2011<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Rocks in the Belly, John Bauer
• The Good Daughter, Honey Brown
• The Mary Smokes Boys, Patrick Holland
• The Piper's Son, Melina Marchetta
• When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
• Time's Long Ruin, Stephen Orr
• That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
• The Legacy, Kirsten Tranter
• Bereft, Chris Womersley

2012<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Blood, Tony Birch
• Spirit of Progress, Steven Carroll
• Spirit House, Mark Dapin
• The Precipice, Virginia Duigan
• All That I Am, Anna Funder
• Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville
• Five Bells, Gail Jones
• Foal's Bread, Gillian Mears
• Autumn Laing, Alex Miller
• Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse
• Past the Shallows, Favel Parrett
• The Street Sweeper, Elliot Perlman
• Animal People, Charlotte Wood

2013<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Floundering, Romy Ash
• Lola Bensky, Lily Brett
• Street to Street, Brian Castro
• Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser
• The Beloved, Annah Faulkner
• The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally
• The Mountain, Drusilla Modjeska
• The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
• Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany
• Red Dirt Talking, Jacqueline Wright

2014<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, Tracy Farr
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
• The Railwayman's Wife, Ashley Hay
• Mullumbimby, Melissa Lucashenko
• The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane
• Belomor, Nicolas Rothwell
• Game, Trevor Shearston
• My Beautiful Enemy, Cory Taylor
• Eyrie, Tim Winton
• The Swan Book, Alexis Wright
• All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wyld

2015<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• In Certain Circles, Elizabeth Harrower
• Golden Boys, Sonya Hartnett
• The Eye of the Sheep, Sofie Laguna
• The Golden Age, Joan London
• The Lost Child, Suzanne McCourt
• Here Come the Dogs, Omar Musa
• When the Night Comes, Favel Parrett
• After Darkness, Christine Piper
• Tree Palace, Craig Sherborne
• Nest, Inga Simpson

2016<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Ghost River, Tony Birch
• Coming Rain, Stephen Daisley
• Hope Farm, Peggy Frew
• Leap, Myfanwy Jones
• The World Without Us, Mireille Juchau
• The Hands : An Australian Pastoral, Stephen Orr
• Black Rock White City, A. S. Patrić
• Salt Creek, Lucy Treloar
• The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood

2017<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• The Easy Way Out, Steven Amsterdam
• An Isolated Incident, Emily Maguire
• The Last Days of Ava Langdon, Mark O'Flynn
• Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill
• A Loving, Faithful Animal, Josephine Rowe
• Waiting, Philip Salom
• Where The Trees Are, Inga Simpson
• Hold, Kirsten Tranter
• Extinctions, Josephine Wilson

2018<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

• A Long Way from Home, Peter Carey (Penguin Random House)
• No More Boats, Felicity Castagna (Giramondo Publishing)
• The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin)
• The Crying Place, Lia Hills (Allen & Unwin)
• The Last Garden, Eva Hornung (Text Publishing)
• Some Tests, Wayne Macauley (Text Publishing)
• Storyland, Catherine McKinnon (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Border Districts, Gerald Murnane (Giramondo Publishing)
• From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
• The Restorer, Michael Sala (Text Publishing)
• Taboo, Kim Scott (Picador Australia/Pan Macmillan Australia)

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• The Lebs, Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Hachette)
• Flames, Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing)
• Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate)
• A Sand Archive, Gregory Day (Picador)
• Inappropriation, Lexi Freiman (Allen & Unwin)
• A Stolen Season, Rodney Hall (Picador)
• The Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones (Text Publishing)
• Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko (UQP)
• Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills (Picador)
• The Lucky Galah, Tracy Sorensen (Picador)

2020–

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• The White Girl, Tony Birch (UQP)
• Room For a Stranger, Melanie Cheng (Text Publishing)
• Islands, Peggy Frew (Allen & Unwin)
• No One, John Hughes (UWA Publishing)
• Act of Grace, Anna Krien (Black Inc.)
• A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane (Text Publishing)
• The Returns, Philip Salom (Transit Lounge)
• Exploded View, Carrie Tiffany (Text Publishing)
• The Yield, Tara June Winch (Hamish Hamilton)
• The Weekend, Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)

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• Amnesty, Aravind Adiga (Picador)
• The Rain Heron, Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing)
• Our Shadows, Gail Jones (Text Publishing)
• Infinite Splendours, Sofie Laguna (Allen & Unwin)
• The Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey (Text Publishing)
• The Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
• Lucky’s, Andrew Pippos (Picador)
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain, Mirandi Riwoe (UQP)
• The Fifth Season, Philip Salom (Transit Lounge)
• Song of the Crocodile, Nardi Simpson (Hachette)
• The Inland Sea, Madeleine Watts (Pushkin Press)
• At the Edge of the Solid World, Daniel Davis Wood (Brio)

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• The Other Half of You, Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Hachette)
• After Story, Larissa Behrendt (UQP)
• Scary Monsters, Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin)
• Bodies of Light, Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
• Echolalia, Briohny Doyle (Vintage)
• The Magpie Wing, Max Easton (Giramondo Publishing)
• The Airways, Jennifer Mills (Picador)
• One Hundred Days, Alice Pung (Black Inc.)
• The Performance, Claire Thomas (Hachette)
• 7 ½, Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
• Grimmish, Michael Winkler (Puncher & Wattmann)

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• Hopeless Kingdom, Kgshak Akec (UWA Publishing)
• Limberlost, Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing)
• Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au (Giramondo Publishing)
• Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Shankari Chandran (Ultimo Press)
• Enclave, Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia)
• Losing Face, George Haddad (UQP)
• Forty Nights, Pirooz Jafari (Ultimo Press)
• Madukka: The River Serpent, Julie Janson(UWA Publishing)
• The Lovers, Yumna Kassab (Ultimo Press)
• Iris, Fiona Kelly McGregor (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Waypoints, Adam Ouston (Puncher & Wattmann)

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• Only Sound Remains, Hossein Asgari (Puncher & Wattmann)
• Wall, Jen Craig (Puncher & Wattmann)
• Strangers at the Port, Lauren Aimee Curtis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Anam, André Dao (Hamish Hamilton)
• The Bell of the World, Gregory Day (Transit Lounge)
• Edenglassie, Melissa Lucashenko (UQP)
• The Sitter, Angela O'Keeffe (UQP)
• Hospital, Sanya Rushdi (Giramondo)
• Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
• Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright (Giramondo)

2025<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Chinese Postman, Brian Castro (Giramondo)
• The Burrow, Melanie Cheng (Text)
• Theory & Practice, Michelle de Kretser (Text)
• Dirt Poor Islanders, Winnie Dunn (Hachette)
• Compassion, Julie Janson (Magabala)
• Politica, Yumna Kassab (Ultimo)
• Ghost Cities, Siang Lu (UQP)
• Highway 13, Fiona McFarlane (Allen & Unwin)
• The Degenerates, Raeden Richardson (Text)
• Juice, Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton)

See also

• Australian History Awards
• Australian literature
• Culture of Australia
• The Commonwealth Writers Prize
• List of Australian literary awards
• List of literary awards
• National Biography Award
• New South Wales Premier's History Awards
• Prime Minister's Literary Awards

Further reading

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External links

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