Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 Longlist

The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life, shining a light on some of the country’s most talented writers.

The 2024 longlist 'includes powerful stories of the legacies of colonisation and dispossession, and the strength, richness and humour of First Nation responses.'

Updated June 11, 2024
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Only sound remains
Asgari, Hossein
Paper Book
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to...
Wall
Craig, Jen.
Paper Book
A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist, Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had...
Strangers at the port
Curtis, Lauren Aimee
Paper Book
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN 'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet complex - a story of the past as well as a vision of the future' SARA BAUME
Anam
Dao, André
Paper Book
'Lovingly domestic in parts, boldly theoretical in others, for a country full of migrants, living amid unresolved questions of place and belonging, Anamis a profoundly relevant novel.' Judges, PM's Literary Awards 'A good book lingers and, for me,...
The bell of the world
Day, Gregory
Paper Book
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an...
Edenglassie
Lucashenko, Melissa
Paper Book
When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery...
The sitter
O'Keeffe, Angela
Paper Book
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the...
Hospital
Rushdi, Sanya
Paper Book
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis...
Stone Yard devotional
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.
Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis.
Paper Book
**Winner, Stella Prize 2024** **Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award** **Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024** **Shortlisted, The...

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