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Jennifer Down wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bodies of Light, a novel about living with trauma

Melbourne author Jennifer Down has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in Australian literature, for her third book, Bodies of Light.

A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist

A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared concern across the volumes leave me wondering whether there is something in the zeitgeist.

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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 shortlist reading guide

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 shortlist reading guide

The shortlist for Australia’s top literary award includes an epic novel about a life shaped by trauma, and a pregnant teen’s letter to the baby she may never get to raise.

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Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60,000

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Miles Franklin prize removes novel from longlist after author apologises for plagiarism

Exclusive: The Dogs by John Hughes withdrawn from $60,000 prize after novelist admits he used parts of nonfiction work of Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich ‘without realising’

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'The Red Witch': how communist writer, intellectual and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard helped shape Australia

Nathan Hobby’s The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard takes on the challenging task of sorting out the complicated details of Prichard’s life as a child, sibling, governess, teacher, friend, lover, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, traveller, celebrity, journalist, poet, novelist, short-story writer, social activist, public speaker and communist.

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Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear

For its 10th anniversary, the Stella Prize has been won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen — in the first year that poetry has been eligible.

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Stella Prize 10 years on: Australian authors reflect on how the award changed their careers and the literary landscape

Stella Prize 10 years on: Australian authors reflect on how the award changed their careers and the literary landscape

Since its inception in 2012, the $50,000 Stella Prize has changed the lives of Australian women and non-binary authors like Charlotte Wood and Jess Hill – placing their stories at the centre of national conversation.

Indigenous voices, #MeToo and disrupting genre: how the tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change

Indigenous voices, #MeToo and disrupting genre: how the tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change

Now in its tenth year, the Stella Prize – founded as a reaction to the under-representation of women in Australian literary culture – has been a force for change. As conversations about representation continue to evolve, the prize does too.

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