The winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been revealed from a historical all-female shortlist.
Michelle de Kretser’s fourth novel, Questions of Travel beat out fierce competition from a shortlist not only of female writers, but award winning and critically acclaimed novels, all five having appeared on short and long-lists across the country.
Ahead of the announcement, Carrie Tiffany’s Mateship with Birds was a forerunner, having recently won the inaugural Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
