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Tim Winton is one of five male authors in the line-up for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award, with his novel, Breath. The other contenders are: Richard Flanagan's Wanting; Murray Bail's The Pages; Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap; and Louis Nowra's Ice.