The Grisly Wife
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The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award
winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall
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The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."
This novel is the third book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as A Dream More Luminous Than Love), following the novels Captivity Captive in 1988, and The Second Bridgeroom in 1991.
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 Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
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The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."
This novel is the third book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as A Dream More Luminous Than Love), following the novels Captivity Captive in 1988, and The Second Bridgeroom in 1991.
Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1994: winner
- NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1994: shortlisted