News: Literature
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
![Dr Hossein Asgari](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2024-07/asgari.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=AKNoSkhN)
Dr Hossein Asgari's novel, Only Sound Remains, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Sean Williams is shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize)
![Sean Williams](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-04/Sean_Williams_Cropped.png?h=0be0efa9&itok=cOZzwC19)
Congratulations to Sean Williams who has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature).
Release of A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday
![A Book of Friends](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-02/9781922268990.jpg?h=005d49a8&itok=Mmntw00R)
A Book of Friends is a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday.
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