Miles Franklin award winner 2008
June 20, 2008 5:02 pm Uncategorized2008 Miles Franklin Award winner is Steven Carroll for The Time We Have Taken. This is the third in a loose trilogy, which includes “The Art of the Engine Driver” and “The Gift of Speed.” According to the Miles Franklin Press Release, the novel is “a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning during a time of radical change.”
“It’s an extraordinary thrill and an honour - but it’s also daunting to be joining a long list of authors whom you’ve either studied or admired for years. The Miles Franklin comes with the gravitas of a whole literary tradition, and you feel that weight almost instantly.” Steven Carroll, on accepting the Award, June 19th.
It is all very exciting. I am organising a Miles Franklin Shortlist challenge through Bookcrossing. I will get to read this book at some stage, and I will post a review of what I thought of it. If you would like to participate in the bookring (AUS only), visit DrCris at bookcrossing.
Miles Franklin Award announcement
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