Born 1950 · Australia
Miles Franklin 2024 · Winner
Praiseworthy
Alexis Wright · 73 when first published
Novel · 736 pages · Politics, Family
AI-generated summary:In a small town in northern Australia under a strange haze cloud, an Aboriginal visionary dreams of saving the world from fossil fuels with donkeys, while his wife and two sons pursue escapes of their own.
Miles Franklin 2014 · Shortlist
The Swan Book
Alexis Wright · 63 when first published
Novel · 340 pages · Speculative, Politics, Nature
AI-generated summary:In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, a mute Aboriginal girl, Oblivia, is raised by an eccentric old woman in the hull of a grounded warship, in a swan-filled swamp used to detain Aboriginal people.
Miles Franklin 2007 · Winner
Carpentaria
Alexis Wright · 56 when first published
Novel · 519 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:In a precarious coastal town in Queensland's Gulf country, the Phantom family, leaders of the Westend Pricklebush people, are locked in battles with a rival mob, the white town officials and a vast mine.