For four years, between 2006 and 2009, the Nelson Meers Foundation was the Patron of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most significant literary prize.

The extraordinary Miles Franklin, who could not publish under her real name, Stella Franklin, was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers’ organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of Australia’s most significant annual prize for literature about “Australian Life in any of its phases”.

Not only does the Miles Franklin Award make an enormous contribution to the richness of Australian cultural life but, more simply, as Frank Moorhouse aptly acknowledged in his winner’s acceptance speech on 5 June 2001, it “honours the great art of storytelling”.

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