2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner named

Congratulations to Jennifer Down whose novel Bodies of Light has been named the winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award.

I haven’t actually read the book myself but according to the blurb from the publisher, it sounds intriguing.

I didn’t really follow the award this year and only made a passing reference to the longlist in this post which I wrote at the end of May.

For the record, the titles on the shortlist were as follows:

• The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Hachette Australia)
• Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin)
•  Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
•  One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (Black Inc. Books)
•  Grimmish by Michael Winkler (Puncher and Wattmann)

You can read more about the winner via this article published on The Guardian.