Your guide to the Miles Franklin shortlist

In the lead up to the Miles Franklin award, announced this Sunday at the Melbourne Writers Festival, here's a closer look at the shortlist.
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The Miles Franklin award is famously for “a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases”. That’s a very broad palette, yet for most of the award’s existence — 1957 to the present — it has recognised a rather narrow field of “Australian life”.

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Jen Webb
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Jen Webb is Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra.