The 2018 longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.
This year’s longlist spans many genres of the novel, from historical to satirical, and includes three former Miles Franklin winners: Peter Carey, Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott.
Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian of the State Library of NSW and head of the Award judging panel, says: ‘Whether dealing with disconnection, dispossession, the many varieties of grief and its resolutions, the violence done to those close or those unknown, or the deeper questions of existence, the 11 longlisted novels engage and reward the reader.’
The 11 longlisted titles are:
- A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey (Read our review)
- No More Boats by Felicity Castagna (Read our review)
- The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser (Read our review)
- The Crying Place by Lia Hills
- The Last Garden by Eva Hornung (Read our review)
- Some Tests by Wayne Macauley (Read our review)
- Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
- Border Districts by Gerald Murnane (Read our review)
- From the Wreck by Jane Rawson (Read our review)
- The Restorer by Michael Sala (Read our review)
- Taboo by Kim Scott (Read our review)
This year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist will be announced on Sunday 17 June. Find out more about the Award, and the longlisted titles, here.
