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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You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.
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There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.
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What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.
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We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.
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In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
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I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
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The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
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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.
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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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History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
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John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.
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My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.