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One thing in White’s favour is that he put the Nobel money into some sort of trust to help struggling authors, if I am remembering that correctly.
I agree on Miles Franklin - pretty forgettable. For the most part, I think the prize winners have been good (not that I have read them all) though there was a huge scandal some years ago over one winner which failed on so many levels, including plagiarism.
I tend to find many authors have some really good books and others that are so-so. Hence my hesitation. For instance, I thought Eucalyptus by Murray Bail was wonderful, but then I didn’t enjoy a couple of other books by him nearly so well - it sets the bar very high.
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