The Miles Franklin Literary Award is made annually from the estate of Miles Franklin for a published novel portraying some aspects of Australian life. I’m working through the list. Once I read a book on the list I’ll link to my review.
- 2023 – Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
- 2022 – Jennifer Down – Bodies of Light
- 2021 – Amanda Lohrey – The Labyrinth
- 2020 – Tara June Winch – The Yield
- 2019 – Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
- 2018 – Michelle de Kretser – The Life to Come
- 2017 – Josephine Wilson – Extinctions
- 2016 – Patrić, A. S. – Black Rock White City
- 2015 – Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
- 2014 – Evie Wyld – All the Birds, Singing
- 2013 – Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel
- 2012 – Anna Funder – All That I Am
- 2011 – Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
- 2010 – Peter Temple – Truth
- 2009 – Tim Winton – Breath
- 2008 – Steven Carroll – The Time We Have Taken
- 2007 – Alexis Wright – Carpentaria
- 2006 – Roger MacDonald – The Ballad of Desmond Kale
- 2005 – Andrew McGahan – White Earth
- 2004 – Shirley Hazzard – Great Fire
- 2003 – Alex Miller – Journey to Stone Country
- 2002 – Tim Winton – Dirt Music
- 2001 – Frank Moorhouse – Dark Palace
- 2000 – Thea Astley – Drylands; Kim Scott – Benang
- 1999 – Murray Bail – Eucalyptus
- 1998 – Peter Carey – Jack Maggs
- 1997 – David Foster – The Glade Within the Grove
- 1996 – Christopher Koch – Highways to a War
- 1995 – Helen Demidenko – The Hand That Signed the Paper
- 1994 – Rodney Hall – The Grisly Wife
- 1993 – Alex Miller – The Ancestor Game
- 1992 – Tim Winton – Cloudstreet
- 1991 – David Malouf – The Great World
- 1990 – Tom Flood – Oceana Fine
- 1989 – Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
- 1988 – Date of Award Changed
- 1987 – Glenda Adams – Dancing on Coral
- 1986 – Elizabeth Jolley – The Well
- 1985 – Christopher Koch – The Doubleman
- 1984 – Tim Winton – Shallows
- 1983 – No Award
- 1982 – Rodney Hall – Just Relations
- 1981 – Peter Carey – Bliss
- 1980 – Jessica Anderson – The Impersonators
- 1979 – David Ireland – A Woman of the Future
- 1978 – Jessica Anderson – Tirra Lirra by the River
- 1977 – Ruth Park – Swords and Crowns and Rings
- 1976 – David Ireland – The Glass Canoe
- 1975 – Xavier Herbert – Poor Fellow My Country
- 1974 – Ronald McKie – The Mango Tree
- 1973 – No Award
- 1972 – Thea Astley – The Acolyte
- 1971 – David Ireland – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
- 1970 – Dal Stivens – A Horse of Air
- 1969 – George Johnston – Clean Straw for Nothing
- 1968 – Thomas Keneally – Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- 1967 – Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes
- 1966 – Peter Mathers – Trap
- 1965 – Thea Astley – The Slow Natives
- 1964 – George Johnston – My Brother Jack
- 1963 – Sumner Locke Elliott – Careful He Might Hear You
- 1962 – Thea Astley – The Well Dressed Explorer & George Turner – The Cupboard Under the Stairs
- 1961 – Patrick White – Riders in the Chariot
- 1960 – Elizabeth O’Connor – The Irishman
- 1959 – Vance Palmer – The Big Fellow
- 1958 – Randolph Stow – To the Islands
- 1957 – Patrick White – Voss