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Richard Flanagan

Australian writer and novelist · Australia · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65

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Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes.

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2019Fellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAward2014Booker PrizeAward1984Rhodes ScholarshipAward1961Born

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Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities2019
Booker Prize2014
Rhodes Scholarship1984
Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation" according to The Economist, Flanagan has also worked as a film director and screenwriter.

Country
Australia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1961 · age 65

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