André Dao - Miles Franklin Shortlist

Huge congratulations to André Dao for his novel ANAM making it to the Miles Franklin Shortlist. Extremely well-deserved! If you’d like to read more about the Miles Franklin including the other shortlisters for 2024, please see here!

Anam blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten. The grandson mines his family and personal stories to turn over ideas that resonate with all of us around place and home, legacy and expectation, ambition and sacrifice. As he sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about: a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?