Poor Fellow My Country
First edition | |
| Author | Xavier Herbert |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Ray Crooke |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Collins (Australia) |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 1463 |
| ISBN | 0-00-616029-8 |
| OCLC | 27490485 |
| Preceded by | Soldiers' Women |
| Followed by | - |
Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. At 1,463 pages, it is the longest Australian work of fiction ever written, and the longest single-volume novel to have been written in the English language. Poor Fellow My Country won the 1976 Miles Franklin Literary Award (for books published in 1975), Australia's most prestigious such award. It was Herbert's final novel.