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Sofie Laguna wins Miles Franklin prize for her novel The Eye of the Sheep
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• Ed: Incredibly the Tasmanian writer ( Richard Flanagan ) adjudged world’s best in English – for the first time this year the Man Booker Prize was opened to all writers in English – has never won the Miles Franklin … despite years of entering novels; perhaps the most surprising his lack of ‘success’ with Gould’s Book of Fish for which he won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2002) …