Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan is a writer I hold in high regard, and the details here remind me why. Born in Tasmania in 1961, a Rhodes Scholar and University of Tasmania graduate, he won the 2014 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a novel rooted in the Burma Railway. What stuns me is that he later took the Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, becoming the first writer to claim both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction honors. That double achievement is rare air. I appreciate that he works across novels, journalism, screenwriting, and film, all anchored in a fierce sense of place from his island home.

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Name (English)

Richard Flanagan

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・フラナガン

Reading

りちゃーど・ふらながん

Born

1961

Origin

Longford, Tasmania, Australia

Occupation

writer / journalist / film director / novelist / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Ox

University

University of Tasmania

Awards & achievements

• Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• 2014 Booker Prize
• 1984 Rhodes Scholarship
• 2019 Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

• Official sitehttps://richardflanagan.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Flanagan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351191

Tags

• Tasmania
• writer
• journalist
• film director

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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