Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize

Australian author Omar Musa's novel 'Fierceland' has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious literary prize, which comes with sixty thousand dollars. Per ABC News, the book tackles the controversial palm oil industry while drawing on Malaysian cultural traditions including ghost stories.

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