The six books nominated for this year’s Miles Franklin Award. Image: Supplied.
The 2025 Miles Franklin shortlist was announced today (Wednesday 25 June), by Perpetual as Trustee, alongside Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund
This year’s shortlist is:
According to a statement from the judges ,“The shortlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates writing that refuses to compromise. Each of these works vitalises the form of the novel and invents new languages for the Australian experience.”
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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