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Siang Lu, winner of the Miles Franklin for 2025.

Miles Franklin Award makes history with 2025 winner, Siang Lu

The winner of the coveted $60,000 literary prize was blown away to make the longlist. Taking out the award has left him lost for words.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist features an Australian first

The works by the six authors on the shortlist for the prestigious award “refuse to compromise”, say the judging panel.

  • Kylie Northover and Miles Appleton
Author Micheel de Kretser.

‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship

Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she accepted the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Melbourne-based Nam Le wins NSW Premier’s Literary awards for the second time with his second book.

Sixteen years ago, Nam Le’s debut won a major literary prize. His follow-up has done it again

Australian-Vietnamese writer Nam Le has taken out book of the year at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards for a poetry collection he fought to get published.

  • Linda Morris
Andreas Papadakis of Tipo 00 has been nominated for a James Beard food book award.

How Aussie cookbooks are winning hearts and stomachs worldwide

Melbourne restaurateur Andreas Papadakis is in the running for a cookbook Oscar, joining an illustrious group of Australian chefs making waves internationally.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
SMH 2025 Best Young Australian Novelists.

Shaping the future of fiction: Meet the 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists

Novelists Jumaana Abdu, Winnie Dunn and Katerina Gibson have been recognised in the 29th year of the award for Australian writers aged 35 and under.

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Author Rodney Hall.

A late-career marvel and an enriching memoir: The Age Book of the Year winners

The winners have been announced at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

  • Kylie Northover
Nagi Maehashi with her latest cookbook, which won Illustrated Book of the Year 2025.

Nagi Maehashi, John Farnham and Richard Scolyer win at book awards

A week after a row over recipes, Nagi Maehashi’s Tonight beats Bake with Brooki at the Australian Book Industry Awards.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Shortlisted books for the 2025 The Age Book of the Year.

‘Audacious, enthralling’: The Age Book of the Year shortlists announced

From a suburban Melbourne home to the rocky surface of the moon, these are the books vying for The Age Book of the Year.

  • Kylie Northover
“If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you. Something worse than cancer.”

‘If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you’

Irish writer Colm Tóibín on surviving cancer and US politics, overcoming a childhood stammer – and the indecency of looking too much in the mirror.

  • Benjamin Law

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