Named after the author of
My Brilliant Career and established by her bequest, the annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of Australia’s most prestigious, valuable and popular fiction prizes.
So what does it take to call yourself a Miles Franklin winner? We’ve crunched the data on every winner since the first in 1957, ahead of the announcement of this year’s award on Thursday afternoon.
Be a man
Twice as many men have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, with men writing 41 of the winning novels and women writing 21 of them. However, the tide may be turning. Eight of the 21 women on the list have won in the past nine years.
How to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award: analysing 64 years of data
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Too many critical areas have been ignored
This budget has produced the biggest deficit since World War II and the largest national debt ever. But it is a disappointing budget. The government ignored (again) the need for new quarantine facilities, did little for the environment, and our existential climate crisis, and nothing for the ABC or our struggling universities, both of which have had to retrench hundreds and thousands of staff (respectively).