Stitches and holes • Anne-Marie Condé

Stitches and holes • Anne-Marie Condé

The name Miles Franklin will be familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in Australian literary culture. When the writer died in 1954 she bequeathed funds to create a literary award to be made annually to the author of a novel “which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.” Controversial at times, the Miles Franklin is still the most glittering prize in Australian letters. Biographies are inelig…