Miles Franklin Longlist - Andre Dao

The Miles Franklin award is a prestigious literary award with the aim of ‘advancement, improvement and betterment of Australian Literature.’ Andre Dao has been longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin award for his novel Anam. Congratulations Andre Dao!

According to the judging panel, “The 2024 longlist engages profoundly with the historical, cultural, philosophical, artistic and environmental concerns of present-day Australia, spanning a breadth of narrative forms and literary styles. The list includes powerful stories of the legacies of colonisation and dispossession, and the strength, richness and humour of First Nation responses.” (Perpetual 2024)

To see more information along with the other longlisted novels please see here!

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather held without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the grandmother left behind to
look after the children? A love story? Or a ghost story – a mystery to be solved?

Moving from 1930s Hanoi through a series of never-ending wars and displacements to Saigon, Paris, Melbourne and Cambridge, Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.