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Miles Allinson

Australian writer and artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ108530510 ↗
Source-derived summary

Miles Allinson (born 1981) is an Australian writer.

Biography

Allinson studied creative arts and writing at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. As well as writing, he works as a bookseller.

Allinson's first book, Fever of Animals won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2014. His second book, In Moonland won The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2022.

Bibliography

—— (2015). Fever of Animals. Scribe. ISBN 9781925106824.

—— (2021).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Miles Allinson” is australian writer and artist. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Miles, Allinson and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2014, 2022, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981. For this dossier, Miles, Allinson and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108530510. VIAF identifies the subject as 103145003295661300285. The Library of Congress control number is n2015068486. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2014, 2022 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miles Allinson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.