Miles franklin
award winners
The award was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles
Franklin for a ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any
of its phases’. All entries for the Award must have been published in
the previous calendar year.
2015 The Eye of the sheep by Sofie Laguna
2014 All the birds singing by Evie Wyld
2013 Questions of travel by Michelle de Kretser
2012 All that I am by Anna Funder
2011 That deadman dance by Kim Scott
2010 Truth by Peter Temple
2009 Breath by Tim Winton
2008 The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
2006 The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
2005 The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
2004 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2003 Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
2002 Dirt Music by Tim Winton
2001 Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
2000 Drylands by Thea Astley
Benang by Kim Scott
1999 Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
1998 Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
1997 The Glade within the Grove by David Foster
1996 Highways to a War by Christopher Koch
1995 The Hand that Signed the Paper by Helen Demidenko
1994 The Grisly Wife by Rodney Hall
1993 The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller
1992 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
1991 The Great World by David Malouf
1990 Oceana Fine by Tom Flood
1989 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.
1987 Dancing on Coral by Glenda Adams
1986 The Well by Elizabeth Jolley
1985 The Doubleman by Christopher Koch