![]() ![]() He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours. įlanagan left school at the age of 16 but returned to study at the University of Tasmania, where he was president of the Tasmania University Union in 1983. He grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast. Flanagan's father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers is Australian rules football journalist Martin Flanagan.įlanagan was born with a severe hearing loss, which was corrected when he was six years old. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land during the Great Famine in Ireland. ![]() Early life and education įlanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. "onsidered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist, the New York Review of Books described Flanagan as "among the most versatile writers in the English language". ![]() įlanagan was described by the Washington Post as "one of our greatest living novelists". He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. ![]()
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