Miles Franklin Award Winners
The Miles Franklin Award was created under the terms of the will of the Australian author Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, who died in September 1954. It is awarded annually, for an Australian-authored novel or play, presenting aspects of Australian life and published during the preceding year.
| 2009 | Breath |
2008 | The time we have taken |
| 2007 | Carpentaria |
| 2006 | The ballad of Desmond Kale |
| 2005 | The white earth |
| 2004 | The great fire |
| 2003 | Journey to the stone country |
| 2002 | Dirt music |
| 2001 | Dark palace |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | Eucalyptus |
| 1998 | Jack Maggs |
| 1997 | The glade within the grove |
| 1996 | Highways to war |
| 1995 | The hand that signed the paper |
| 1994 | The grisly wife |
| 1993 | The ancestor game |
| 1992 | Cloudstreet |
| 1991 | The great world |
| 1990 | Oceana fine |
| 1989 | Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1988 | (Date of award changed) |
| 1987 | Dancing on coral |
| 1986 | The well |
| 1985 | The doubleman |
| 1984 | Shallows |
| 1983 | (no award) |
| 1982 | Just relations |
| 1981 | Bliss |
| 1980 | The impersonators |
| 1979 | A woman of the future |
| 1978 | Tirra Lirra by the river |
| 1977 | Swords and crowns and rings |
| 1976 | The glass canoe |
| 1975 | Poor fellow my country |
| 1974 | The mango tree |
| 1973 | (no award) |
| 1972 | The acolyte |
| 1971 | The unknown industrial prisoner |
| 1970 | A horse of air |
| 1969 | Clean straw for nothing |
| 1968 | Three cheers for the paraclete |
| 1967 | Bring larks and heroes |
| 1966 | Trap |
| 1965 | The slow natives |
| 1964 | My brother Jack |
| 1963 | Careful, he might hear you |
| 1962 | The well dressed explorer |
| 1961 | Riders in the chariot |
| 1960 | The Irishman |
| 1959 | The big fellow |
| 1958 | To the islands |
| 1957 | Voss |