MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021 - WINNER

The WINNER of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced!

State Library of NSW Mitchell librarian Richard Neville, who judges the 2021 award alongside author and activist Sisonke Msimang and book critics Melinda Harvey, Bernadette Brennan and James Ley, said of the 2021 longlist: ‘a rich mix of well-established, early career and debut novelists whose work ranges from historical fiction to fabulism and psychologism’.

‘Through an array of distinctive voices these works invite their readers to engage with questions regarding the natural and animal worlds, asylum, sexual abuse, colonialism, racism and grief. These are stories about trauma and loss, and also about beauty, resilience and hope.’

THE LABYRINTH is the seventh novel by Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey and which judges praised as "a beautifully written reflection on the conflicts between parents and children, men and women, and the value and purpose of creative work".

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