Books & Poetry
Alexis Wright has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the second time, with the judges saying her epic novel Praiseworthy ‘redraws the map of Australian literature and expands the possibilities of fiction’.
Books & Poetry
Shankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens – set in a Western Sydney nursing home – is an extraordinary novel that should spur Australian book club members to talk frankly about race and racism in their own neighbourhoods.
A novel that explores a mother’s steps to support her incarcerated son while attempting to make sense of his horrific crime has taken out Australia’s pre-eminent literary prize.
The six authors shortlisted for Australia’s richest literary prize each investigate “destructive loss” in their novels.
The winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin award is a powerful and deeply moving book, unstinting in its depiction of socio-political disasters, writes Jen Webb.
Ahead of the announcement this week of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, cultural theorist Jenn Webb offers a guide to the six shortlisted novels – all of which tackle topics that ‘shimmer with relevance’.
