Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist

       Recently they inaugurated a new Australian literary prize, The Stella Prize, "celebrating Australian women's writing" -- a women-only prize like that British it-used-to-be-called-the-Orange-but-I've-forgotten-what-it's-called-this-week prize. Maybe they needn't have: they've now announced the shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award -- one of Australia's leading literary prizes -- and it's a female-authored sweep.
       The winner will be announced 19 June.