The Time We Have Taken
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The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award
winning novel by Australia
n author Steven Carroll
. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver
and The Gift of Speed
, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s. The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time' and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.'
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 Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver
The Art of the Engine Driver
The Art of the Engine Driver is a 2001 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the first in a sequence of novels, followed by The Gift of Speed and The Time We Have Taken.-Awards:...
and The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed
The Gift of Speed is a 2004 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the second in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and followed by The Time We Have Taken.-Reviews:**...
, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s. The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time' and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.'
Awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: winner
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: winner
- Victorian Premier's Literary AwardVictorian Premier's Literary AwardThe Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry....
, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007: shortlisted - The Age Book of the YearThe 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...
Award, Fiction Prize, 2007: shortlisted