Miles Franklin award-winning writer of 10 novels has died of pancreatic cancer
Miles Franklin-winning Queensland author Andrew McGahan, the author of 10 novels including Praise, Last Drinks, The White Earth and the Ship Kings series, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 52.
McGahan broke into the industry in 1992 with Praise, a raw, comic and semi-autobiographical novel that captured the essence of Brisbane as it emerged from the Bjelke-Petersen era.
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