The Great World
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The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award
winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf
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Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
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Awards
- Festival Awards for Literature (SA), National Fiction Award, 1992: winner
- Prix FeminaPrix FeminaThe Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...
(France), Best Foreign Novel, 1991: winner - Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1991: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 1991: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, South-East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book from the Region Award, 1991: winner
- National Library of Australia National Audio Book-of-the-Year Award, 1990: joint winner