The Glade within the Grove
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The Glade within the Grove is a Miles Franklin Award
winning novel by Australia
n author David Foster
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Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winning novel by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n author David Foster
David Foster (novelist)
David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...
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Awards
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardThe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world...
, 1998: shortlisted - Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1997: winner
- James Joyce Foundation Suspended Sentence Award, 1996: winner
- The Age Book of the Year AwardThe Age Book of the YearThe Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival...
, Fiction Prize, 1996: shortlisted - NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted