Shankari Chandran, novelist of Sri Lankan descent, wins Australia’s Miles Franklin Literary Award

Shankari Chandran, novelist of Sri Lankan descent, wins Australia’s Miles Franklin Literary Award

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Category : Awards Published on: July 29 2023

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  • Shankari Chandran won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. 
  • The story of the novel focuses in a western Sydney suburb, where a Sri Lankan native describes the lives of people from an old-age home who left the country in the 80s to escape the civil war.
  • The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual prize given to “a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases”.
  • The Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the prestigious literary awards in Australia. 
  • Previous winners of the award include Thea Astley, Jessica Anderson, Tim Winton, among others.
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