Trauma, resilience, sex and art: your guide to the 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist
- Written by Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra
Becca Tapert/UnsplashIt seems sometimes literary fiction performs a bellwether function: signalling changes; alerting us to the directions in which a society is headed.
The 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist seems to bear this out in six novels whose topics shimmer with relevance: the continuing wounds of colonisation (for people and the environment);...
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