The Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist 2018

The 2018 longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.

This year’s longlist spans many genres of the novel, from historical to satirical, and includes three former Miles Franklin winners: Peter Carey, Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott.

Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian of the State Library of NSW and head of the Award judging panel, says: ‘Whether dealing with disconnection, dispossession, the many varieties of grief and its resolutions, the violence done to those close or those unknown, or the deeper questions of existence, the 11 longlisted novels engage and reward the reader.’

The 11 longlisted titles are:

This year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist will be announced on Sunday 17 June. Find out more about the Award, and the longlisted titles, here.

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From the Wreck

Jane Rawson

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