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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Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
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A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
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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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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.
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In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
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History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
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