MilesFranklin @_milesfranklin
Australia’s most prestigious literary award established through the will of writer Stella Miles Franklin, best known for the novel 'My Brilliant Career' milesfranklin.com.au Australia Joined December 2012-
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For nearly 70 years, the #MilesFranklin has celebrated literature that reflects the evolving spirt of Australian life. Your donation can support that mission – and Miles Franklin’s vision. buff.ly/ugB3C8Z @CopyrightAgency
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Thanks to the #MilesFranklin 2025 judging panel: Richard Neville (Chair), A/Prof Jumana Bayeh, Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Prof Tony Hughes-d’Aeth and Prof Hsu-Ming Teo. #MFLA2025 @CopyrightAgency
Thanks to our supporters: @CopyrightAgency Cultural Fund, @perpetual_ltd and @abcradionational #MFLA2025
“Shimmering with satire and wisdom, and with an absurdist bravura, Ghost Cities is a genuine landmark in Australian literature.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel @CopyrightAgency
Watch Siang Lu talk about his book 'Ghost Stories' on ABC News Breakfast TV with Emma Rebellato & James Glenday and winning the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award! ABC Breakfast TV: buff.ly/gBglmLP #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025 Photo: Gillian Keough Photography
And the winner is... Congratulations to Siang Lu, winner of the 2025 #MilesFranklin for his novel Ghost Cities (UQP) – a bold and satirical reimagining of Australian storytelling. @UQPbooks buff.ly/zMTwucK @CopyrightAgency
'Now a new house would be built: larger, uglier, and filled with the inexplicable lives of other people.' Excerpt from Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane @AllenAndUnwin #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
‘If you are living a life aligned towards art – the making of it, the receiving of it – then the patterns you leave in your wake will be indistinguishable from the art itself.’ Excerpt from Ghost Cities by Siang Lu @UQPbooks #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
‘We sang for the ancient ones, unending and forever, and I shuddered, knowing I had come home.’ Excerpt from Compassion by Julie Janson @MagabalaBooks #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
‘Islander must do everything together. We crossed the ocean together. We stayed poor together. It must be this way; togetherness is what it meant to be Tongan.’ Excerpt from Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn @HachetteAus #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
In just one week, the winning novel of #MFLA2025 will be revealed – the work deemed most outstanding in Australian literature this year.
‘Our mothers closed doors in order to keep us safe and never stopped warning us about the dangers outside. The Woolfmother said, ‘Imagine!’ and opened doors in our minds.’ Excerpt from Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser @text_publishing #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
‘Writing makes matter out of metaphysics. To do it the other way round is an insult to life. Abe Quin…for that is my name. I am a scrivener. Not Abe Quill, though that would sound better.’ Excerpt from Chinese Postman by Brian Castro @GiramondoBooks #MilesFranklin #MFLA2025
“McFarlane’s exquisitely composed and linguistically glittering pieces of plot break away to tell the tales of those whose lives are touched by the vestiges of violence.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel @CopyrightAgency
“A feat of comedic conjuring, Ghost Cities swings between ancient & modern Zhongguo (China), offering them as mirrors to each other. In Siang Lu’s whacky vision, fact and fiction merge, in audacious metaphors that are informative and inventive.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel
“This is a sprawling and magnificent genre-blending epic where colonial gothic meets the unashamedly erotic. Compassion showcases compelling storytelling across history and country.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel @CopyrightAgency
"Challenging reductive & popular racist representations of a community, Dunn’s debut novel is a captivating read into a world unfamiliar to most, evoking questions about the Australian motherland through the voice & vision of a Tongan-Australian author." #MFLA2025 Judging Panel
“Theory & Practice is a novel of great subtlety and elegant restraint. It has a deceptive lightness of touch that is difficult to square with the hold it lays on the central wagers of subjective life.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel
Make sure you grab a copy of the #MFLA2025 shortlisted titles so you can pick your winner from one of our supporting book retailers Dymocks, Readings, Apple Books, gleebooks and of course independent bookstores Australia-wide. @CopyrightAgency
“Castro has crafted a fine and profound novel. Abe Quin, the anti-hero of this novel, does not always find language consoling, but the lyric beauty of Chinese Postman, its restless wisdom and bitter comedy, bestow a rare gift on readers.” #MFLA2025 Judging Panel @CopyrightAgency
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