Richard Flanagan
Australian novelist whose The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about the Burma-Thailand Railway, won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. His fiction confronts Australian memory and the legacy of war with extraordinary emotional power. He is considered one of the finest prose writers in the country.
Works
- The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthJapanese POW and Australian officer form bond amid hellish labor camp
- Death of a River GuideRiver guide's death by crocodile echoes across family and landscape memory
- Gould's Book of FishConvict forger creates illuminated book in colonial prison as redemption
- The Unknown TerroristWoman targeted by government surveillance in contemporary Australia's paranoia
- The Living Sea of Waking DreamsFamily's magical past intrudes on their present through love and memory