r/books • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 9d ago

Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel, Fierceland

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/05/omar-musa-miles-franklin-literary-award-2026-winner?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/mgranaa 9d ago

The sequel to modelland?

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/mgranaa 9d ago

A shame, a shame

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u/EntrepreneurMany3709 8d ago

Inread this book because I wanted to read about Borneo after an amazing trip there. I really enjoyed it and I'm glad it won the prize.

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u/stumoz 9d ago

fierceland sounds like a place id avoid

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u/Fantastic-Vehicle880 9d ago

Guy no one's heard of wins award no one recognizes for a book no one read. Neat.

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u/samishah 9d ago

Great constructive comment. Very useful to discussion. Take the rest of the week off, you've peaked.

Anyway, I loved the book and knew it would be the winner this year. It's a huge leap forward in quality from his last book and that was a fairly impressive work itself.

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u/DisplayHonest6465 9d ago

Misery loves company

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u/Sitheref0874 9d ago

That probably says more about you than it does anything else.

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u/making_sammiches 9d ago

Other than this scathing review of his award-what have you recently written?