The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

The winner of the Miles Franklin 2026:

Fierceland - Omar Musa

MILES FRANKLIN SHORTLIST 2026

Discipline by Randa Abel-Fattah

First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn

My Heart at Evening - Konrad Muller

Fierceland - Omar Musa

Little World - Josephine Rowe

You Must Remember This - Sean Wilson

MILES FRANKLIN LONGLIST 2026

Discipline by Randa Abel-Fattah

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena

Salt Upon the Water - Lyn Dickens

Tenderfoot - Toni Jordan

First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn

My Heart at Evening - Konrad Muller

Fierceland - Omar Musa

Little World - Josephine Rowe

Elegy, Southwest - Madeleine Watts

You Must Remember This - Sean Wilson