Ten books have been selected from an overall submission of 104 titles for the longlist of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. The winner will receive $60,000.
The longlisted nominations are:
The judging panel noted, ‘The 2024 longlist engages profoundly with the historical, cultural, philosophical, artistic and environmental concerns of present day Australia, spanning a breadth of narrative forms and literary styles. The list includes powerful stories of the legacies of colonisation and dispossession, and the strength, richness and humour of First Nation responses.
‘Historical novels explore hitherto untold and unexpected stories of First Nations contact with settler-colonials as well as the multinational, multicultural roots of present day Australian society. There are elegiac explorations of the diverse historical, political, economic, environmental and ecological drivers of immigration.
