From clockwork left to right: the five Miles Franklin shortlisted authors for 2022: MIchael Winkler, Alice Pung, Michelle de Kretser, Jennifer Down and Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
The five novels shortlisted for Australia’s most prestigious literary award were announced online on Thursday (23 June).
The $60,000 prize is awarded to a work judged as being ‘of the highest literary merit’ and which presents ‘Australian life in any of its phases’.
This year’s shortlisted writers include an author whose novel was rejected by numerous publishers before being self-published, a previous Miles Franklin winner, and three established authors.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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