Perpetual, the trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has unveiled this year’s longlist, featuring 10 novels. The selected works include two former winners and two past short-listees. The winner of the award will receive $60,000.
The 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist is:
According to the judging panel, “The limits of novelistic expression continue to be challenged in Australian letters. This year’s field of Australian novels judged for the Miles Franklin Literary Award encompassed a sometimes dizzying variety of writing. From political fables to picaresque counter-histories, from taut COVID parables to heart-warming family chronicles, Australian life in all its multiplicity is on display in these novels.
