2006 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD: Longlist

TWELVE novels have been longlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s premier literary prize:

An Accidental Terrorist (University of Queensland Press) / Steven Lang
A Case of Knives (Allen & Unwin) / Peter Rose
Dead Europe (Vintage/Random House Australia) / Christos Tsiolkas
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia) / Carrie Tiffany
Knitting (Penguin Australia) / Anne Bartlett
Prochownik’s Dream (Allen & Unwin) / Alex Miller
Sunnyside (Viking/Penguin Australia) / Joanna Murray-Smith
The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Vintage/Random House Australia) / Roger McDonald
The Broken Shore (Text Publishing) / Peter Temple
The Garden Book (Giramondo) / Brian Castro
The Secret River (Text Publishing) / Kate Grenville
The Wing of Night (Viking/Penguin Australia) / Brenda Walker

For what it is worth, this is what I think the shortlist will look like:

Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia) / Carrie Tiffany
The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Vintage/Random House Australia) / Roger McDonald
The Garden Book (Giramondo) / Brian Castro
The Secret River (Text Publishing) / Kate Grenville
The Wing of Night (Viking/Penguin Australia) / Brenda Walker

The shortlist will be announced on April 27, 2006, and the winner will be announced on June 22, 2006