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. 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

July 1, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Longford, Tasmania, Australia

Occupation

writer / journalist / film director / novelist / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / 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

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.