Richard Flanagan

1961–

Australian novelist and film-maker born in Longford, Tasmania, the son of a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. He grew up in the mining town of Rosebery, left school at 16 and later graduated from the University of Tasmania before taking a Rhodes Scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford. His debut novel, Death of a River Guide (1994), was followed by The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish and Wanting. Question 7 (2023), a work of non-fiction, won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize. The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Richard Flanagan’s life

Works

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013)

Prizes

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North — The Booker Prize 2014: Winner, Shortlist, Longlist