Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), The Unknown Terrorist and Wanting have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway.
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Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Australia, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Aboriginal Australians, History, Prisoners of war, Aboriginal Australian Children, Aboriginal Tasmanians, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, war & military, Indigenous women, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Literary, Terrorism, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, 18.05 English literature, Aboriginal australians, fiction, Alcoholics, Artists, fiction, Australian fictionPlaces
Australia, Tasmania, Burma, Sydney (N.S.W.), Franklin River (Tas.), Franklin River Region (Tas.), Great BritainPeople
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Jane Franklin (1791-1875), John Franklin (1786-1847), William Buelow Gould (1803-1853)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL272606A
- ISNI: 0000000121449438
- VIAF: 99138677
- Wikidata: Q1351191
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1351191
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