Miles Franklin Award

Winners

Shortlisted works

1980s

• Dancing on Coral, Glenda Adams
• Holden's Performance, Murray Bail
• Truant State, Nicholas Hasluck
• Bloodfather, David Ireland
• Home Is the Sailor, Nancy Phelan

• Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
• Captivity Captive, Rodney Hall
• Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw
• Building on Sand, David Parker
• Charades, Janette Turner Hospital

  1990s

• Company of Images, Janine Burke
• Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
• Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy
• Avenue of Eternal Peace, Nicholas Jose
• Smyrna, Tony Maniaty
• I for Isobel, Amy Witting

• Longleg, Glenda Adams
• Taking Shelter, Jessica Anderson
• Reaching Tin River, Thea Astley
• The Bluebird Café, Carmel Bird
• The Country Without Music, Nicholas Hasluck
• The Great World, David Malouf

• Double-Wolf, Brian Castro
• Our Sunshine, Robert Drewe
• To the Burning City, Alan Gould
• The Second Bridegroom, Rodney Hall
• Cloudstreet, Tim Winton

• Vanishing Points, Thea Astley
• After China, Brian Castro
• Cosmo Cosmolino, Helen Garner
• The Last Magician, Janette Turner Hospital
• Shearers' Motel, Roger McDonald
• The Ancestor Game, Alex Miller

• The Grisly Wife, Rodney Hall
• Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
• Water Man, Roger McDonald

• The Hand That Signed the Paper, Helen Demidenko
• Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan
• Dark Places, Kate Grenville
• A Mortality Tale, Jay Verney

• The White Garden, Carmel Bird
• The House in the Light, Beverley Farmer
• Bracelet Honeymyrtle, Judith Fox
• The Touchstone, Paul Horsfall
• Highways to a War, Christopher Koch
• Camille's Bread, Amanda Lohrey
• The Sitters, Alex Miller

• The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow, Thea Astley
• Night Letters, Robert Dessaix
• The Drowner, Robert Drewe
• The Glade Within the Grove, David Foster
• Oyster, Janette Turner Hospital
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek, David Malouf
• Before I Wake, John Scott

• Wrack, James Bradley
• Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
• The Service of Clouds, Delia Falconer
• The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Richard Flanagan
• One for the Master, Dorothy Johnston
• Lovesong, Elizabeth Jolley
• Nightpictures, Rod Jones

• Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
• Red Shoes, Carmel Bird
• The Golden Dress, Marion Halligan
• Mr Darwin's Shooter, Roger McDonald
• Three Dollars, Elliot Perlman

  2000s

• Drylands, Thea Astley
• Too Many Men, Lily Brett
• What a Piece of Work, Dorothy Porter
• Benang, Kim Scott
• Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop, Amy Witting

• True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
• The Company, Arabella Edge
• The Day We Had Hitler Home, Rodney Hall
• English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
• Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller
• Dark Palace, Frank Moorhouse
• Life after George, Hannie Rayson

• The Art of the Engine Driver, Steven Carroll
• Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
• Gilgamesh, Joan London
• The Architect, John Scott
• Dirt Music, Tim Winton

• The Prosperous Thief, Andrea Goldsmith
• Of a Boy, Sonya Hartnett
• Moral Hazard, Kate Jennings
• An Angel in Australia, Thomas Keneally
• Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller
• Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter

• My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey
• Elizabeth Costello, J. M. Coetzee
• Three Dog Night, Peter Goldsworthy
• The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
• Slow Water, Annamarie Jagose
• Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman

• Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
• The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
• Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
• The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
• The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood

• The Garden Book, Brian Castro
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
• Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
• The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker

• ', Peter Carey
• Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
• Careless, Deborah Robertson
• Carpentaria, Alexis Wright

• The Pages, Murray Bail
• Wanting, Richard Flanagan
• Ice, Louis Nowra
• The Slap'', Christos Tsiolkas
• Breath, Tim Winton

  2010s

• Lovesong, Alex Miller
• The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
• Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
• The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
• Truth, Peter Temple
• Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett

• Bereft, Chris Womersley
• That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
• When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald

• Blood, Tony Birch
• All That I Am, Anna Funder
• Foal's Bread, Gillian Mears
• Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse
• Past the Shallows, Favel Parrett

• Floundering, Romy Ash
• Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser
• The Beloved, Annah Faulkner
• The Mountain, Drusilla Modjeska
• Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
• The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane
• My Beautiful Enemy, Cory Taylor
• Eyrie, Tim Winton
• The Swan Book, Alexis Wright
• All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wyld

• Golden Boys, Sonya Hartnett
• The Eye of the Sheep, Sofie Laguna
• The Golden Age, Joan London
• After Darkness, Christine Piper
• Tree Palace, Craig Sherborne

• Hope Farm, Peggy Frew
• Leap, Myfanwy Jones
• Black Rock White City, A. S. Patrić
• Salt Creek, Lucy Treloar
• The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood

• An Isolated Incident, Emily Maguire
• The Last Days of Ava Langdon, Mark O'Flynn
• Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill
• Waiting, Philip Salom
• Extinctions, Josephine Wilson

• No More Boats, Felicity Castagna
• The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser
• The Last Garden, Eva Hornung
• Storyland, Catherine McKinnon
• Border Districts, Gerald Murnane
• Taboo, Kim Scott

• The Lebs, Michael Mohammed Ahmad
• A Sand Archive, Gregory Day
• A Stolen Season, Rodney Hall
• The Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones
• Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko
• Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills

  2020s

• The White Girl, Tony Birch
• Islands, Peggy Frew
• No One, John Hughes
• The Returns, Philip Salom
• Exploded View, Carrie Tiffany
• The Yield, Tara June Winch

  Longlisted works

• Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
• The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
• Backwaters, Robert Engwarda
• 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

• 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

• ', 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

• The White Girl, Tony Birch
• Room For a Stranger, Melanie Cheng
• Islands, Peggy Frew
• No One, John Hughes
• Act of Grace, Anna Krien
• A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane
• The Returns, Philip Salom
• Exploded View, Carrie Tiffany
• The Yield, Tara June Winch
• The Weekend'', Charlotte Wood