The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced on 2 July in Sydney. Rodney Hall (shortlisted for A Stolen Season), Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Lebs) and Gregory Day (A Sand Archive) appear in this interview, which was re

Miles Franklin Shortlist 2019: Gail Jones, Jennifer Mills & Melissa Lucashenko

Jul 4th, 2019 38m 1s

The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced on 2 July in Sydney. Gail Jones (shortlisted for The Death of Noah Glass), Jennifer Mills (Dyschronia) and Melissa Lucashenko (Too Much Lip) appear in this interview, which

David Malouf

Jul 25th, 2018 45m 5s

David Malouf is an internationally recognised Australian writer. He has received the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He wa

Michelle de Kretser

Jul 11th, 2018 41m 15s

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle was an editor for Lonely Planet and founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review before devoting herself to

Miles Franklin Shortlist 2018

Jun 20th, 2018 1h 1m

The shortlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin was announced on 17 June 2018 in Canberra. This episode - featuring the four shortlisted writers who attended the awards ceremony in Canberra - was released on 21 June 2018.This episode features inter

Josephine Wilson

May 23rd, 2018 37m 6s

Josephine Wilson is a Perth-based writer, poet and teacher.Josephine received the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015 for her manuscript of Extinctions, a work which would go on to receive the 2017 Miles Frankl

Alec Patric and Ryan O'Neill

May 16th, 2018 42m 11s

Alec Patric and Ryan O’Neill have an extraordinary writing partnership, and have been sharing their writing since 2010.Alec was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Prize for Black Rock White City in 2016. Ryan was then shortlisted for the Mile

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