Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Debut novelist Christine Piper joins shortlist for 2015 Miles Franklin prize

Vogel award-winning Australian-Japanese author’s novel After Darkness is one of a five-strong shortlist for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize

Christine Piper.
Christine Piper has been shortlisted for her debut novel After Darkness. Photograph: Timothy Lee/Allen and Unwin
A debut novelist is among the five authors shortlisted for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin award.

In her first book, After Darkness – which won the Vogel literary prize in 2014 – Australian-Japanese author Christine Piper tells the story of a Japanese doctor questioning his identity after he is arrested and interned in a South Australian camp during the second world war.
Also making the shortlist are Joan London and Sofie Laguna, both also nominated for the 2015 Stella prize, which was originally conceived as a counterpoint to the Miles Franklin, an award historically dominated by male winners.

London’s book, The Golden Age, also set in the mid-20th century, is a love story between two polio patients in a 1959 Perth hospital – Australian Elsa Briggs and Hungarian refugee Frank Gold.

The 2015 Miles Franklin shortlist

  • Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
  • The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
  • The Golden Age by Joan London
  • After Darkness by Christine Piper
  • Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne
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