Ten novels have been longlisted for the nation’s most prestigious literary award, including Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline, which has been embroiled in ongoing debates about censorship, politics and ...

Omar Musa has won one of the nation's top literary prizes, the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for his novel Fierceland, a family saga interrogating ideas of inheritance, complicity and ...

With the release of Netflix's new TV adaptation of My Brilliant Career last week and the announcement of the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award earlier this month, August feels like ...

Queanbeyan rapper, poet, artist and author Omar Musa has confirmed his place as one of the most ambitious voices in contemporary Australian literature by winning the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award ...

The award program established in 1957 puts forward 12 titles for this year's longlist, each chosen for its evocation of Australian life. The post Australia’s Miles Franklin Literary Award: Longlist ...

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Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most innovative and internationally recognised writers, has been awarded this year’s Stella Prize for her seventh novel, Theory & Practice – currently ...