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ELEANOR HALL: Melbourne author Alex Miller is the toast of Australian literary circles today after winning his second Miles Franklin Award.
This year he won for his novel Journey to the Stone Country, which is about a Melbourne woman who returns to her childhood home in outback Queensland where she falls in love with an Aboriginal man.
But as our reporter Paula Kruger discovered, the writer rejects suggestions his book is about reconciliation.
PAULA KRUGER: For many of those who've read Journey to the Stone Country, the novel is a skilful study of reconciliation.
Hilary McPhee is one of the judges of the Miles Franklin Award.
HILARY MCPHEE: Drawing on his time working as a stockman in Northern Queensland, Alex Miller vividly depicts this beautiful...