Australian Literary Awards: Miles Franklin

• 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

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