2007 Miles Franklin Award longlist announced

Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

Longlist for the 2007 Miles Franklin Award has been announced. The eight novels selected are:

Beyond the Break by Sandra Hall
Careless by Deborah Robertson
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
Silent Parts by John Charalambous
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The Unexpected Elements of Love by Kate Legge
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

The Miles Franklin Award is awarded annually for “the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which presents Australian life in any of its phases.”

This year’s shortlist will be announced on Thursday, 19th of April, with the winner being revealed on Thursday 21st June.



Trackback URL
Filed under Australian literature, Commonwealth literature, English literature, Fiction, Novels, Shortlists.



 

0 Comments

Ordered from oldest to newest comment.

No comments yet.

Write a Comment




XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>