Truthfully yours

So Truth did win the Miles Franklin. Good on them for chosing a crime novel, though a quite literary one. The judges did point out the serious themes, and Temple’s style is spare and eschews the cliche of some crime fiction, so I don’t think this is a “dumbing down” of the award, or an attempt to make the winning book a more “accessible” one. For the record, the judges’ comments were: Temple “takes a popular genre and transforms it into a radical literary experiment in realism and fiction”, and the novel is “written with all the ambiguity and moral sophistication of the most memorable literature”.