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Miles Franklin

1879 - 1954

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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miles Franklin is the 4,955th most popular writer (up from 6,752nd in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Australia (up from 498th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Australian Writer.

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Among writers, Miles Franklin ranks 4,955 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Lowell, Aagje Deken, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Sakutarō Hagiwara, Eugippius, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani. After her are W. W. Jacobs, Choʻlpon, Ajdar Ismailov, Alexander Vampilov, Justine Musk, and Juan de Mena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Miles Franklin ranks 195. Before her are Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, John Ireland, Jules De Bisschop, Edward Hennig, Ernst Schultz, and Ruth St. Denis. After her are Frank Odberg, Sydney Greenstreet, Birger Sörvik, Kārlis Skalbe, Marion Jones Farquhar, and Han Yong-un. Among people deceased in 1954, Miles Franklin ranks 129. Before her are Vitaliano Brancati, Jules De Bisschop, Henri Frankfort, Kaare Klint, Julio Acosta García, and Abelardo Olivier. After her are Charles Perrin, Sydney Greenstreet, Otto Gebühr, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Vasily Yan.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Miles Franklin ranks 227 out of 1,143. Before her are Radha Mitchell (1973), Helen Quinn (1943), Walter Frederick Gale (1865), Luke Hemsworth (1980), Lleyton Hewitt (1981), and Ian Thorpe (1982). After her are Joseph Jacobs (1854), Anthony LaPaglia (1959), Keith Michell (1926), Emilie de Ravin (1981), Greg Egan (1961), and May Robson (1858).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Miles Franklin ranks 14. Before her are Germaine Greer (1939), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), John Flanagan (1944), Gregory David Roberts (1952), and Peter Carey (1943). After her are Joseph Jacobs (1854), Greg Egan (1961), Patricia Wrightson (1921), Trudi Canavan (1969), Markus Zusak (1975), and Banjo Paterson (1864).

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