Between the Covers of Miles Franklin Literary Award

Broadcast: 6pm – Monday, July 4, 2011.

In 2011, Indigenous WA author Kim Scott won Australia’s most prestigious literary award – the Miles Franklin – for the second time with That Deadman Dance.

On Between the Covers we look at the Miles Franklin Literary Award – who was Miles Franklin and why did she establish the award…and 55 years on, how is the prize managed?

During this edition we hear from Simon Lewis; representing the custodians of the literary prize.

Also on the program; Morag Fraser AM, one of the 2011 judges of the Miles Franklin Literary Award