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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Author pledges prizemoney to help family out of homelessness
Melissa Lucashenko says she will share the proceeds of her latest literary prize with struggling family members.
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
A preview of Saturday’s pages; Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford Prize; Irish translator wins Stephen Spender Prize; MS ...
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Special edition Richard Flanagan book on display now
A hand-bound edition of The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.