Miles Franklin Award

Miles Franklin Award winner Shankari Chandran sits down with Women’s Agenda to talk about the importance of prioritising one’s own artwork.

At just 31, Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the 2022  Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel, Bodies of Light.

Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Yield, a story of violence and resistance.

Lucashenko’s work is a powerful response to the entrenched racism that still shapes Australian culture. This year, her sixth novel wins Miles Franklin Award