The 2025 longlist for the Miles Franklin Award has been announced! This year's longlist celebrates ten novels, offering unique and diverse views of Australian life.
According to the judging panel: 'This year’s field of Australian novels … encompassed a sometimes dizzying variety of writing. From political fables to picaresque counter-histories, from taut Covid parables to heart-warming family chronicles, Australian life in all its multiplicity is on display in these novels. The novels enlarge our sense of what it is to be Australian as a diasporic nation with an ancient and living human history.'
The 2025 Miles Franklin Longlist
Chinese Postman by Brian Castro
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Compassion by Julie Janson
Politica by Yumna Kassab
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane
The Degenerates by Raeden Richardson
Juice by Tim Winton
The Miles Franklin Award celebrates novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life, and awards the winning author $60,000. You can read more about this year's longlist here.
