Miles Franklin Award winners
Australia's best-known literary prize, given since 1957 to a novel that presents Australian life.
69 winners, 1957 to 2026, newest first.
- Fierceland2026FiercelandOmar Musa
- Ghost Cities
2025Ghost CitiesSiang Lu - Praiseworthy2024PraiseworthyAlexis Wright
- Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
2023Chai Time at Cinnamon GardensShankari Chandran - Bodies of Light2022Bodies of LightJennifer Down
- The Labyrinth2021The LabyrinthAmanda Lohrey
- The Yield2020The YieldTara June Winch
- Too Much Lip
2019Too Much LipMelissa Lucashenko - The Life to Come
2018The Life to ComeMichelle de Kretser - Extinctions2017ExtinctionsJosephine Wilson
- Black Rock White City
2016Black Rock White CityA. S. Patrić - The Eye of the Sheep
2015The Eye of the SheepSofie Laguna - All the Birds, Singing
2014All the Birds, SingingEvie Wyld - Questions of Travel
2013Questions of TravelMichelle de Kretser - All That I Am
2012All That I AmAnna Funder - That Deadman Dance
2011That Deadman DanceKim Scott - Truth
2010TruthPeter Temple - Breath
2009BreathTim Winton - The Time We Have Taken
2008The Time We Have TakenSteven Carroll - Carpentaria
2007CarpentariaAlexis Wright - The Ballad of Desmond Kale
2006The Ballad of Desmond KaleRoger McDonald - The White Earth
2005The White EarthAndrew McGahan - The Great Fire
2004The Great FireShirley Hazzard - Journey to the Stone Country
2003Journey to the Stone CountryAlex Miller - Dirt Music
2002Dirt MusicTim Winton - Dark Palace
2001Dark PalaceFrank Moorhouse - Benang2000BenangKim Scott
- Drylands
2000DrylandsThea Astley - Eucalyptus
1999EucalyptusMurray Bail - Jack Maggs
1998Jack MaggsPeter Carey - The Glade Within the Grove
1997The Glade Within the GroveDavid Foster - Highways to a War
1996Highways to a WarChristopher Koch - The Hand That Signed the Paper1995The Hand That Signed the PaperHelen Demidenko
- The Grisly Wife
1994The Grisly WifeRodney Hall - The Ancestor Game
1993The Ancestor GameAlex Miller - Cloudstreet
1992CloudstreetTim Winton - The Great World
1991The Great WorldDavid Malouf - Oceana Fine
1990Oceana FineTom Flood - Oscar and Lucinda
1989Oscar and LucindaPeter Carey - Dancing on Coral
1987Dancing on CoralGlenda Adams - The Well
1986The WellElizabeth Jolley - The Doubleman
1985The DoublemanChristopher Koch - Shallows
1984ShallowsTim Winton - Just Relations
1982Just RelationsRodney Hall - Bliss
1981BlissPeter Carey - The Impersonators
1980The ImpersonatorsJessica Anderson - A Woman of the Future
1979A Woman of the FutureDavid Ireland - Tirra Lirra by the River
1978Tirra Lirra by the RiverJessica Anderson - Swords and Crowns and Rings
1977Swords and Crowns and RingsRuth Park - The Glass Canoe
1976The Glass CanoeDavid Ireland - Poor Fellow My Country
1975Poor Fellow My CountryXavier Herbert - The Mango Tree
1974The Mango TreeRonald McKie - The Acolyte
1972The AcolyteThea Astley - The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
1971The Unknown Industrial PrisonerDavid Ireland - A Horse of Air
1970A Horse of AirDal Stivens - Clean Straw for Nothing
1969Clean Straw for NothingGeorge Johnston - Three Cheers for the Paraclete
1968Three Cheers for the ParacleteThomas Keneally - Bring Larks and Heroes
1967Bring Larks and HeroesThomas Keneally - Trap1966TrapPeter Mathers
- The Slow Natives1965The Slow NativesThea Astley
- My Brother Jack
1964My Brother JackGeorge Johnston - Careful, He Might Hear You
1963Careful, He Might Hear YouSumner Locke Elliott - The Cupboard Under the Stairs1962The Cupboard Under the StairsGeorge Turner
- The Well Dressed Explorer
1962The Well Dressed ExplorerThea Astley - Riders in the Chariot
1961Riders in the ChariotPatrick White - The Irishman
1960The IrishmanElizabeth O'Conner - The Big Fellow1959The Big FellowVance Palmer
- To the Islands
1958To the IslandsRandolph Stow - Voss
1957VossPatrick White
Winners from the prize's Wikipedia article.