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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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
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As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
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A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
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A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.
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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
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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.