Perpetual, the trustee of the A$60,000 (about US$43,000) Miles Franklin Literary Award, has released this year's longlist celebrating "novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life." This year’s shortlist will be released in June, with the winner named in August. The longlisted titles are:
Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah
I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena
Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens
Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan
First Name, Second Name by Steve Minon
My Heart at Evening by Konrad Muller
Fierceland by Omar Musa
Little World by Josephine Rowe
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts
You Must Remember This by Sean Wilson