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The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued at A$60,000. Winners 1957–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020– Controversies Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel Grand Days because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian. 1995 winner Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for The Hand That Signed the Paper and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian descent and said it was fiction based on family history. Writer David Marr, who presented the award to her, said that revelations about her true background did not "alter a single thing about the quality of the story, it knocks completely out of the water her answers to critics who said it was not historically accurate, that she knows because of direct family experience, which appears to be complete bull----." Even before the hoax was revealed, Darville’s book was considered anti-Semitic and justified the genocide of Jewish people. It was also later revealed that she plagiarised from multiple sources. In 2004, judges of the award resigned due to what they viewed as the commodification of the awards. 2022 longlisted writer John Hughes was accused of plagiarising significant sections of his 2021 book The Dogs from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich's nonfiction book The Unwomanly Face of War. Nearly 60 similarities and identical sentences were found in a comparison of Hughes' novel and the English version of Alexievich's book. The Guardian newspaper also found similarities between incidents described in the books, including the central scene from which The Dogs takes its title. Further investigation found other examples of plagiarism in the novel and that Hughes copied sections of classic texts including The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina without acknowledging the original source. The book was subsequently withdrawn from competition. The Stella Prize was created in 2013 as a reaction to the under-representation of women as winners of literary prizes, in particular the 2011 Miles Franklin Award shortlist. Repeat winners (4) Thea Astley: 1962, 1965, 1972, 2000 (4) Tim Winton: 1984, 1992, 2002, 2009 (3) Peter Carey: 1981, 1989, 1998 (3) David Ireland: 1971, 1976, 1979 (2) Jessica Anderson: 1978, 1980 (2) Rodney Hall: 1982, 1994 (2) Thomas Keneally: 1967, 1968 (2) Michelle de Kretser: 2013, 2018 (2) George Johnston: 1964, 1969 (2) Christopher Koch: 1985, 1996 (2) Alex Miller: 1993, 2003 (2) Kim Scott: 2000, 2011 (2) Patrick White: 1957, 1961 Shortlisted works Shortlisted titles are only shown for the years 1987 onwards. No record has yet been found for any shortlists being released prior to that year. Winners are listed in bold type. 1980s In 1989, the date changed from the year of publication to year of announcement, so no award was named in 1988. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Longlisted works Longlisted titles are only shown for the years 2005 onwards. That was the first year that such a list was released by the judging panel. The number of works included on the longlist varies from year to year. 2005–2009 2005 Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll Backwaters, Robert Engwarda The Ghost Writer, John Harwood The Broken Book, Susan Johnson Sixty Lights, Gail Jones A Private Man, Malcolm Knox The Philosopher's Doll, Amanda Lohrey The White Earth, Andrew McGahan I Have Kissed Your Lips, Gerard Windsor The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood The Last Ride, Denise Young 2006 Knitting, Anne Bartlett The Garden Book, Brian Castro The Secret River, Kate Grenville An Accidental Tourist, Stephen Lang The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald Prochownik's Dream, Alex Miller Sunnyside, Joanna Murray-Smith A Case of Knives, Peter Rose The Broken Shore, Peter Temple Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker 2007 Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey Silent Parts, John Charalambous The Unknown Terrorist, Richard Flanagan Beyond the Break, Sandra Hall Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones The Unexpected Elements of Love, Kate Legge Careless, Deborah Robertson Carpentaria, Alexis Wright 2008 The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital Sorry, Gail Jones The Widow and Her Hero, Thomas Keneally The Memory Room, Christopher Koch Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller Secrets of the Sea, Nicholas Shakespeare 2009 The Pages, Murray Bail Wanting, Richard Flanagan Addition, Toni Jordan One Foot Wrong, Sofie Laguna Ice, Louis Nowra Fugitive Blue, Claire Thomas A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz The Devil's Eye, Ian Townsend The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas Breath, Tim Winton 2010–2019 2010 Figurehead, Patrick Allington Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro Boy on a Wire, Jon Doust The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster Sons of the Rumour, David Foster Siddon Rock, Glenda Guest Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett The People's Train, Thomas Keneally Lovesong, Alex Miller Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey Truth, Peter Temple 2011 Rocks in the Belly, John Bauer The Good Daughter, Honey Brown The Mary Smokes Boys, Patrick Holland The Piper's Son, Melina Marchetta When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald Time's Long Ruin, Stephen Orr That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott The Legacy, Kirsten Tranter Bereft, Chris Womersley 2012 Blood, Tony Birch Spirit of Progress, Steven Carroll Spirit House, Mark Dapin The Precipice, Virginia Duigan All That I Am, Anna Funder Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville Five Bells, Gail Jones Foal's Bread, Gillian Mears Autumn Laing, Alex Miller Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse Past the Shallows, Favel Parrett The Street Sweeper, Elliot Perlman Animal People, Charlotte Wood 2013 Floundering, Romy Ash Lola Bensky, Lily Brett Street to Street, Brian Castro Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser The Beloved, Annah Faulkner The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally The Mountain, Drusilla Modjeska The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany Red Dirt Talking, Jacqueline Wright 2014 The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, Tracy Farr The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan The Railwayman's Wife, Ashley Hay Mullumbimby, Melissa Lucashenko The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane Belomor, Nicolas Rothwell Game, Trevor Shearston My Beautiful Enemy, Cory Taylor Eyrie, Tim Winton The Swan Book, Alexis Wright All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wyld 2015 In Certain Circles, Elizabeth Harrower Golden Bo.... Discover the Mark Henshaw popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mark Henshaw books.