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	Miles Franklin Literary Award
		The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar.
		Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born near Tumut in New South Wales in 1879.
		Kate Jennings, who was shortlisted for the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her novel Moral Hazard, says that the best novels don't always win literary awards but acknowledges their importance to the writer.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/milesfranklin (858 words)

	Brent of Bin Bin
		Miles Franklin (1879-1954) is known for the feminism and nationalism of such works as My Brilliant Career.
		Franklin's writing is rough and unpolished but vivid and outspoken; her strongest work draws from her intimate knowledge of Australian back country culture and attitudes.
		Miles Franklin was born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin on the grazing property, Talbingo, near Tumut in New South Wales.
	www.book-traders.net /bbb.htm (322 words)

	The Miles Franklin Award
		The Miles Franklin award was set up under the terms of the will of the late Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the famed Australian author who died in September 1954.
		The award is administered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney, and is currently worth $42,000.
		It would appear that some attempt is being made to resurrect the standing of the Miles Franklin Award in the eyes of the general public after the debacle of 1995's award to Helen Demidenko.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/prizes/milesfkn.html (1042 words)

	McGahan wins Miles Franklin literary award
		The award was established in 1954 with a bequest from author Miles Franklin.
		It is awarded for the novel of the year that is of "the highest literary merit and which must present Australian life in any of its phases".
		It was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Age Book of the Year and the Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing.
	www.abc.net.au /news/items/200506/1399432.htm?sydney (305 words)

	Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - State of the Arts
		I’ve been thinking about Miles Franklin, who used a man’s name, in accord with the exigencies of her time – but was no more a man than was Henry Handel Richardson, or George Eliot, or those three Bell brothers, whose true and sisterly name was Brontë.
		The judges commented in their formal report that in a year when the shortlist for the Award featured novels by writers who have won many of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, as well as highly distinguished works by younger novelists, the choice was a particularly difficult one.
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award, incepted in 1954, celebrates Australian character and creativity and nurtures the continuing life of literature based on Australia.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news/?fid=2712 (728 words)

	30 Years of collecting
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award was established in 1954 with a bequest from author Miles Franklin, and was first awarded in 1957 to Patrick White for his novel Voss.
		The award celebrates Australian character and creativity and nurtures the continuing life of literature based on Australia.
		It is awarded for the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which presents Australian life in any of its phases.
	wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au /about/30years/miles.html (219 words)

	Hazzard wins Miles Franklin award - Books - www.theage.com.au
		Ms Blanchett said the award was an "honour among peers, celebrating the diversity of Australian authors".
		"This is an award from one practitioner to another and probably each year an artist from a different discipline presents the award because the bequest from one artist to another is actually the highest of honours," Blanchett said.
		Miles Franklin judges selected Hazzard's novel for the $42,000 prize from the 45 entries submitted this year and the six shortlist finalists announced in April.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/17/1087245043186.html?oneclick=true (547 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Book Awards
		Award trophies and certificates are presented to authors and illustrators of those books that best encourage an attitude of caring, wonder and understanding of the natural world, or those that promote an awareness of environmental issues.
		The Miles Franklin Award was established in 1954 with a bequest from Miles Franklin to promote excellence in Australian literature.
		Award categories are: Braille Book of the Year, Audio Book of the Year, Adult Narrator of the Year, Civica Young Adult Audio Book of the Year, Civica Young Adult Narrator of the Year.
	www.det.wa.edu.au /education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/aw2.htm (1221 words)

	The 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner announced - State of the Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ms Gillian Armstrong announced the winner of this Award valued at $42,000 on Thursday 23 June, at a gala Dinner Presentation held in the Miles Franklin Exhibition Room, The Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales.
		Since it was first awarded in 1957 to Patrick White for his novel Voss, the Miles Franklin has encouraged authors and delivered an immense contribution to Australian cultural life.
		The Miles Franklin is awarded for the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which presents Australian life in any of its phases.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news/default.asp?fid=3569 (669 words)

	Miles Franklin Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’.
		The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879 - 1954), who is most well known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (published in 1901) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award.
		As of 2006 the award is worth AU$42,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miles_Franklin_Award (267 words)

	Awards links - Internet links
		The official site of the Miles Franklin Literary Award includes a list of winners and judges' reports for the last ten years.
		The NSW Premier's Literary Awards aim to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers.
		The official site of the Vogel Award which is awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/awards.cfm (484 words)

	State Library of Queensland - BWF 2006
		Or browse by subject areas like: literature, Queensland literature, literary awards and prizes and Queensland literary conferences, festivals and events.
		Miles Franklin Literary Award [new window http://www.trust.com.au/Content.aspx?topicID=129] - Included in the webpages for the Miles Franklin Literary Award is information about this year's winning book and author.
		Governor General's Literary Awards [new window http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla] - The Governor General's Literary Awards are Canadian and 'are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven catagories...'.
	www.slq.qld.gov.au /find/hottopics/bwf_2006 (1064 words)

	AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE: MILES FRANKLIN AWARD
		The Miles Franklin Award is named for the famed Australian author the late Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin and set up under the terms of her will.
		The award is given annually for the novel or play of the highest literary merit, written by an Australian, presenting aspects of Australian life, and published during the preceding year.
		The award is administered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney, and is currently worth $28,000.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/aus_history/41954/1 (524 words)

	Parramatta City Council: News: Miles Franklin’s Brilliant Career Revealed In Parramatta - 09 May 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paul Brunton, exhibition curator and editor of The Diaries of Miles Franklin (Allen & Unwin), says that Miles was a terrible flirt who left a number of suitors broken hearted, including Banjo Paterson.
		The exhibition highlights Miles' little-known career overseas, including her pioneering work with the Women's Trade Union League in Chicago from 1908 to 1915 and as a cook in Macedonia during World War 1.
		Miles Franklin published 15 books in her lifetime, four posthumously, and her legacy to Australian literature is evident in the establishment of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award - a secret gift to the nation revealed after her death.
	www.parracity.nsw.gov.au /news/20050509_473.html (311 words)

	Trust : Miles Franklin Literary Award
		The 2006 Prize was $42,000 and is awarded for the novel of the year which is of “the highest literary merit and which must present Australian life in any of its phases”.
		Since it was first awarded in 1957 to Patrick White for his novel Voss, the Award has encouraged authors and delivered an immense contribution to the richness of Australian cultural life.
		The Prize is awarded for the novel of the year which is of “the highest literary merit and which must present Australian life in any of its phases”.
	www.trust.com.au /Content.aspx?topicID=129 (1290 words)

	Poppy's Blog: Miles Franklin Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 64-year-old has been named winner of the annual Miles Franklin Literary Award with his latest novel, The Ballad of Desmond Kale.
		The Ballad of Desmond Kale is set in the 1800s, the early days of British settlement of Australia and follows the story of Kale, an Irish political prisoner and a "rebelliously brilliant breeder of sheep".
		Miles Franklin judges selected McDonald's novel for the $42,000 prize from 54 entries submitted this year.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/extras/blogs/headstart/2006/06/miles-franklin-award.html (162 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Miles Franklin Award
		The Miles Franklin Award is Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, both for its longevity and its impact on cultural debate.
		The Award has subsequently been given to a novel every year since, excluding 1973 and 1983, in which years no candidate was deemed worthy, and 1988, when, largely for marketing reasons, the prize-winners were henceforth to be chosen from works published in the year of the Award rather than the year preceding.
		The Miles Franklin Award judges have been at pains over the years to avoid the kind of scandals that erupt periodically around such prizes as the Goncourt and the Man Booker; however, a number of incidents have marked the history of the prize with the controversy that such awards thrive on.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1674 (655 words)

	Big guns on for Miles Franklin award - theage.com.au
		Two of Australia's literary superstars will fight it out for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award along with a poet-turned prose writer, a short story writer-turned novelist and a novelist-cum-theatre critic.
		The books short-listed for Australia's most respected literary fiction prize, worth $28,000 to the winner, are Dirt Music by Tim Winton; Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan; The Architect by John Scott; Gilgamesh by Joan London and The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll.
		Winton is a two-time winner of the award, while Flanagan's book, which received a rave review in The New York Times last month, has already won in the best book category of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the South-East Asia and South Pacific region.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/18/1019020683194.html (705 words)

	Matilda: Conditions of the Miles Franklin Award
		To quote from the administrator's website: "The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates Australian character and creativity and nurtures the continuing life of literature based on Australia.
		When Miles Franklin first had the idea for the prize in her name, Australian literature about Australia was an endangered species that needed all the nurturing, protection and encouragement it could get."
		If the Miles Franklin Award is the pre-eminent literary prize in Australia, then it must reflect the world in which it finds itself.
	www.middlemiss.org /weblog/archives/matilda/2006/04/conditions_of_t.html (1053 words)

	Shirley Hazzard: Miles Franklin winner
		The Miles Franklin Award is the first time Shirley Hazzard has had official recognition in her own country.
		JANA WENDT: Miles Franklin's great literary success came early in life with the publication of My Brilliant Career when she was just 21.
		DAVID MARR, MILES FRANKLIN JUDGE: On the whole the winner of the Miles Franklin is known to be a book that people who are interested in fiction in Australia will read.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_1584.asp (2867 words)

	Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australian Fiction) on Lists of Bests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, was first awarded in 1957.
		It is awarded to the novel published in the previous calendar year which is of the highest literary merit and which presents Australian life in any of its phases.
		The award was shared in 1962 and 2000, and there was no award in the years 1973, 1983 and 1988.
	www.listsofbests.com /list/2636 (135 words)

	Culture and the Literary Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Winning the first award validated her text by placing it amongst some of the more important works in the Australian canon.
		The ‘stamp of approval’ given by winning three literary awards further influenced the academic and reading public, as people were led to believe in the authenticity of the novel, as well as the identity put forth by Demidenko.
		It is hoped this examination of literary awards and identity politics within the realm of literature will reveal a larger influence upon Australian culture and the state of multiculturalism today.
	ah.brookes.ac.uk /conferences/calp/papers/china.html (427 words)

	the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 11 - 20 June 2004 Archive
		The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the bizarre (and among the worst-named) but nicely international prize was awarded to This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun this year.
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most remunerative -- and with a stellar short-list this year -- was awarded to The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard this year.
		The Australian reports (with The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald obnoxiously becoming registration-requiring we have to shift to other sources), and notes that, while the Miles Franklin may be the most prestigious prize Australia has to offer, that's not enough to convince even the finalists to show up.
	www.complete-review.com /saloon/archive/200406b.htm (3734 words)

	Academic shortlisted for prestigious Australian book award - The University of Auckland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Associate-Professor Annamarie Jagose, from The University of Auckland, has been shortlisted for Australia’s most significant literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her third novel, Slow Water.
		The winner of the award, which is announced on 17 June, will collect AU$42,000 in prize money.
		The Miles Franklin Literary Award is presented to "the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which presents Australian life in any of its phases".
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/about/news/articles/2004/05/0001.cfm (408 words)

	Judges storm out of Miles Franklin literary prize - Books - www.smh.com.au
		It seemed that calm and prestige had returned to the Miles Franklin after recent dramas, when Frank Moorhouse lost out in 1994 after his Grand Days was judged "un-Australian" and the pseudo-Ukrainian Helen Demidenko, real name Helen Darville, won the year after.
		There had been run-ins between Ms Salter and some judges this year over her decision to invite the Prime Minister, John Howard, to the awards dinner, which he declined, and her reprimand of a judge who told a sponsor the winner's name before the public announcement.
		The Copyright Agency paid $50,000 towards promotion, which allowed Miles Franklin's estate to increase the prize from $28,000 to $42,000 and help pay for the awards dinner, at which Cate Blanchett was guest speaker.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Books/Judges-storm-out-of-Miles-Franklin-literary-prize/2004/12/21/1103391774639.html?oneclick=true (580 words)

	Trust : Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006 Shortlist
		Please enter here to view the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006 Judges' Formal Comments.
		Judges for the 2006 Award were Eve Abbey, Professor Robert Dixon, Morag Fraser AM, Ian Hicks, and the State Librarian of NSW, Dagmar Schmidmaier AM.
		The winner who will receive $42,000, will be announced at a gala dinner held at the State Library of New South Wales Thursday 22 June 2006.
	www.trust.com.au /Content.aspx?topicID=176 (265 words)

	Pan Macmillan Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The award is given for the book written by an Australian citizen or resident and published in 2004 that booksellers most enjoyed reading and selling in that year.
		This award is presented by the British Science Fiction Association and the Serendip Foundation, and is one of the world's most prestigious science fiction awards.
		Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman was shortlisted for the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
	www.panmacmillan.com.au /news_archive.asp (2941 words)

	Salt Rain - Sarah Armstrong
		It was shortlisted for three national literary awards: the 2005 Dobbie Award for a first novel by a woman, the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Award.
		Toccata and Rain is a self-conscious, literary, self-reflexive, seriously playful novel from the title which replaces the expected "fugue" with the quirky anticlimactic "rain" to the text which intersperses poetic prose with a rich variety of more strictly poetic forms.
		Sarah's writing reveals a special affinity for the element of water and Salt Rain is set in a place reminiscent of Mullumbimby and its hinterland during a hot, sticky wet season.
	www.sarah-armstrong.com /index.php?id=4 (3641 words)

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