Gregory Day – Miles Franklin Shortlist

Exciting news for Deakin PhD graduate and tutor Gregory Day, whose novel A Sand Archive (Picador) has been shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. The winner will be announced on 30 July, and will receive $60,000 in prize money for the novel judged as being ‘of the highest literary merit’ and which presents ‘Australian life in any of its phases’.

Set on the south-west coast of Victoria, Gregory’s novel centres on the story of a book-loving engineer working on the Great Ocean Road.

Speaking on behalf of the judging panel, author and literary critic Dr Bernadette Brennan said: “The 2019 shortlist showcases a diverse and exciting range of Australian voices and experiences. Each writer has been unafraid to take risks in their narrative, in one or more of structure, subject matter or style. These books celebrate, for the most part, some of the complex, disparate and urgent aspects of contemporary Australian life.”

The six shortlisted books are:

• The Lebs, Michael Mohammed Ahmad
• A Stolen Season, Rodney Hall
• A Sand Archive, Gregory Day
• The Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones
• Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko
• Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills

 

 

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