2012 Miles Franklin

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879 - 1954), who is most well known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (originally published in 1901 still in print ) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award. As of 2012 the award is worth AU$50,000 and it is administered by the Trust Foundation.

2012 WINNER Anna Funder, who has won most major prizes this year in Australia with All That I Am -

Shortlisted: Tony Birch, Blood -
Gillian Mears, Foal's Bread -
Frank Moorhouse, Cold Light -
Favel Parrett, Past The Shallows -

Longlist and past winners

Featured Book

All That I Am - Anna Funder

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel JohnsonPrize and author of "Stasiland", offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II.

When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart..

."The strengths of Funder's writing are emotional and imaginative. In what she has to say about love, loss and betrayal there is profound truth". ("The Times"). "An often pacy and exciting read...Funder captures perfectly the sense of her characters' deprived and dangerous lives". ("Daily Mail"). "A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it". ("Spectator").

 

2012 Winners Prime Minister’s Literary Award

The Prime Minister and Arts Minister Simon Crean announced the winners of the six 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards at the National Library of Australia. Worth a cool $100,000 tax free to each of the winners. More

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Fiction – Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Poetry – Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
Non-fiction – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
Prize for Australian History – The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
Young adult fiction – When We Were Twoby Robert Newton
Children’s fiction – Goodnight, Mice! By Frances Watts, illustrated by Judy Watson