Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Miller Flanaganis an Australian novelist from Tasmania. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist, each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. He also has written and directed feature films. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
life strong time
The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
australian drowned national sydney
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.
beauty hand history
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
talked unusually
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
darwinism demise mind offer proof seemed striking supposed truth victorian
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
greater larger
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
anorexic assembly life lists reduce stranger
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
admirer great japanese
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
history report
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
rapidly
The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.
Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.
camels details stories
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.
dream lying hate
The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.
love-is glimpse abandon
Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.