First Nations writer Alexis Wright has won the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for the second time for her acclaimed novel, Praiseworthy.

Ms Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, first won the Miles Franklin in 2007 for her book, Carpentaria.

"I am both amazed and humbled to win the 2024 Miles Franklin Award for Praiseworthy," Ms Wright said.

"To win a Miles Franklin a second time is monumental.

"I wanted to make Praiseworthy a big book in more ways than one.

"I wanted to capture the spirit of our times."

The judges called Praiseworthy "an astonishing feat of storytelling and sovereign imagination".

"It is a capacious work in which Alexis Wright takes on the role of creative custodian, singing the songs of unceded lands," the judges said.

"She bears witness to the catastrophic transformations wrought by white fantasies, against which Indigenous ingenuity still stands, its connection to Country unbroken.

"Wright's literary technique is a superb mash-up of different languages, ancient and modern, and displays an exceptional mastery of craft.

"Through its sheer ambition, astringency and audacity, Praiseworthy redraws the map of Australian literature and expands the possibilities of fiction."

In winning the Miles Franklin for the second time, Ms Wright joins the ranks of other two-time winners Michelle de Kretser, Kim Scott, Thomas Keneally and Patrick White.

The 73-year-old has had a stellar couple of months after becoming the first person to win the $60,000 Stellar Prize for literature twice.

In March, the her works were shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

She recently won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, one of the UK's longest-running literary awards, for her book, Praiseworthy.

Last September, Praiseworthy won the University of Queensland Fiction book award, and the work has also been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's award.

Ms Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth.

Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Poland.

She is also the inaugural winner of the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.