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
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Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
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The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.
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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
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I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.
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Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.
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The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
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Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
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My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
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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.
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Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.
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My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
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Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever.
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I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
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The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.