Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I haven't felt I'm being forced to eat something healthy.
But we're going to get into each of these books in more detail as we go on.
I want to start with the basics, Sarah.
The Miles Franklin, of course.
is Australia's most prestigious literary award.
It's actually not the best paying of the Australian prizes, but it's definitely the big one in terms of reputation.
It carries a cash prize of $60,000 and the winning author goes into the history books alongside previous winners like Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, Melissa Lukashenko, and of course, last year's winner, Xiang Liu.
And this year, there are six books on the Miles Franklin shortlist.
Sarah, can you run us through them?
So today we're going to take you through each of these six wonderful books.
You're going to hear from the authors too.
And by the end of the episode, we promise you will be an expert on this year's shortlist.
Sarah and I, we're also going to reveal who we think should win the prize.
And Sarah, why don't we start with a Chinese hopping zombie and Steve Minon's first name, second name.
First Name, Second Name is the first novel by the Queensland-based writer Steve Minnon.
And the setup for this one, I don't reckon it can be beat.
A corpse wakes up in a hospital morgue.
It's stiff with rigor mortis.
It flings its body onto the floor.
It starts walking north.
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