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Big-name authors miss out as new voices dominate Miles Franklin longlist – Sydney Morning Herald
Early-career writers have dominated the $60,000 Australian literary prize.
Aravind Adiga, the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, is one of the most established names on the longlist of 12 with his novel Amnesty about an illegal immigrant in Sydney.
The multi-award-winning Gail Jones, who has never won the prize despite being on the longlist or shortlist five times, also made the cut.
Her eighth novel,Our Shadows, interweaves the story of three generations of family living in gold rush Kalgoorlie and the story of the Irish-born prospector who discovered gold…
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