by Paula | Jun 24, 2015 | News
Author, actor and playwright Sofie Laguna has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep. Congratulations Sofie! The $60,000 prize was announced at an event in Melbourne on Tuesday night. The winning title was...
by Paula | May 24, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced at the Australian Booksellers Association Conference at the State Library of Victoria. The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie...
by Paula | Apr 1, 2015 | News
Ten books have been longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award and eight are by women writers. Two of the longlisted novels have been shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize — The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna and The Golden Age by Joan London....
by Paula | Jun 28, 2014 | News
Congratulations to Evie Wyld for her Miles Franklin win with her novel All the Birds, Singing. The novel was judged as being ‘of the highest literary merit’ and presents ‘Australian Life in any of its phases’ in accordance with Miles Franklin’s guidelines for the...
by whisperinggums | Apr 9, 2014 | Round-ups
Well, last month’s bribe seems to have worked! We’ve gone from no Classics reviewed in February to four in March. I shall be true to my word and mention each one under the Classics heading below. March was also significant for the announcement of the Miles...
