Miles Franklin Literary Award Patron 2006-2009
State Library of New South Wales

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.

Not only does the 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”.