![]() ![]() Winch is the fourth Indigenous Australian author to win the prize, following last year's winner Melissa Lucashenko (for Too Much Lip), Kim Scott (who shared the prize in 2000 for Benang and won again in 2011 with That Deadman Dance) and Alexis Wright (for Carpentaria, 2007). The 2019 judging panel is chaired by State Library of NSW's Mitchell Librarian Richard Neville, and comprised of author and literary critic Dr Bernadette Brennan, journalist Murray Waldren, author and book critic Dr Melinda Harvey, and bookseller Lindy Jones.Past winners include Patrick White, Ruth Park, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Peter Carey and David Ireland.It distinguishes a novel "of the highest literary merit" which presents "Australian life in any of its phases".It was established in the will of author Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (author of My Brilliant Career).The Miles Franklin Award was first awarded in 1957.Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's most prestigious writing prize, and one of its richest at $60,000 - for her novel The Yield. ![]()
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