Baillie Gifford winner Richard Flanagan: ‘We shouldn’t divide the world into aggressors and victims’
Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote WH Auden in his 1939 poem In Memory of WB Yeats. The Tasmanian-born author Richard ...
London Evening Standard20h
Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan makes history securing Baillie Gifford gong
Toby Mundy, prize director, said: “In winning the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 with Question 7, Richard Flanagan has achieved an unprecedented double. “No author has ever won both this prize and ...
The Daily Telegraph5d
Baillie Gifford winner Richard Flanagan: ‘We shouldn’t divide the world into aggressors and victims’
The Tasmanian-born author Richard Flanagan has always been amused by the way this phrase is often read as a statement of art’s essential failure to change the world. “It’s a beautifully ...
Why an Australian author has declined $97,000 prize money after winning a prestigious book award
Prominent author Richard Flanagan won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his novel Question 7 and has ...
The Mercury6d
Richard Flanagan becomes first person to win both Bailie Gifford and Booker Prizes
Prize director Toby Mundy said it was a “staggering achievement”. “Richard Flanagan has achieved an unprecedented double which confirms [him] as one of the world’s most significant ...