The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award

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 Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...

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The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009.

Awards

• Festival Awards for Literature (SA), Dymocks Booksellers Award for Fiction, 2006: shortlisted
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  The 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...
  
  , 2006: longlisted
• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2005: winner
• Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2005: winner
• The Age Book of the Year
  The Age Book of the Year
  The 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, 2004: winner
• Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
  Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
  The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book...
  
  , Best Fiction Book, 2004: shortlisted
• The Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, 2004: winner

Reviews

• "The Age"
• "The Sydney Morning Herald"

Stage Version

La Boite Theatre Company, Brisbane, Australia.

23 February-21 March 2009

Adapted and Directed by Shaun Charles and Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...

Designer Greg Clarke

Lighting Designer David Walters

Sound Designer/Composer Guy Webster

Cinematic Design Markwell Presents

Cast Stace Callaghan, Dan Eady

Dan Eady

-Work:As a writer his first play, The Boy and the Goat, was semi-autobiographical and investigated the heightened suicide rates amongst children of Vietnam Veterans. Heavily influenced by the death of his brother, it was also based on research published in the . Internationally recognised...

, Penny Everingham, Kathryn Marquet, Veronica Neave, Anthony Phelan & Steven Tandy

External links

• La Boite's website with Production Information
• La Boite brings Andrew McGahan's White Earth to life
• Warped Soul in a Harsh Land - Interview with leading actor
• Gothic Drama Makes for an Epic Feast - Review of Stage Production.
• La Boite's White Earth Stretches to Mythic Proportions - Review of Stage Production.
• Australian Stage - Review of stage production