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Low-angle shot of the Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin announcement is not far away. This award is arguably the most important on the Australian literary scene. In his Brief Take on the Australian Novel, Jean François-Vernay structures his approach by borrowing from another popular art form: film. Here we have his 'Low-angle shot of the Miles Franklin Award'.   In line with the wishes of Stella Franklin, who bequeathed almost all of her estate estimated at £8,996 to establish this literary prize, the Miles Franklin…

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Our authors are the best authors

Am I repeating myself? Because they're ace. We've always known it, but it's nice when they get the recognition they deserve, as is happening at the moment -- Hard on the heels of Margaret Merrilees's shortlisting for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing, we now have not one but two longlistings from the Nita B. Kibble Awards as well! The first is Rachel Hennessy, whose novel The Heaven I Swallowed was runner-up for the Australian/Vogel…

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