Do You Know This Author?

Question One: Has an Australian author won the Booker Prize?
Answer: Yes.

New York Review of Books described Richard Flanagan as “among the most versatile writers in the English language.” The Guardian wrote about ‘Question 7‘ “Blending memoir and history and auto-fiction, this brilliantly unique book by the Booker winner is a treatise on the immeasurability of life.”

Question Two: Do you know this author?
Answer: Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ (several reviews here) and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for ‘Question 7’ which makes him the first writer in history to win both Britain’s major fiction and non-fiction prizes.

Question Three: Have you read one or many of Flanagan’s books?

Question Four: If you have read a Flanagan novel do you call yourself a good reader or a stalwart reader?

Question Five: Do you think you are missing out on a literary experience if you have not read these books?

Question Six: Of the three books (pictured above and below) are you likely to purchase at least one?

Question Seven (wink): Do you know how many other books this Aussie author has written? Not a quiz but, hey!

Richard Flanagan has written:
1994 – 2020 Eight novels
1985 – 2023 Nine non-fiction books
1998 – Film ‘The Sound of One Hand Clapping’ (director and screenwriter)
2008 – Film ‘Australia’ (co-writer)
2008 – ‘Wanting’ a complex 19th-century tale set in Tasmania and England involving an Aboriginal girl and novelist Charles Dickens.
2024 – Baillie Gifford Prize for ‘Question 7’

Current Awards and Honours:
Too extensive to list here so please click on the Wikipedia and Penguin Books link for full details and prepare to be amazed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Flanagan
Baillie Gifford Prize:
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/question-7-9781761343483

Inspired? Keen to read something different? Challenge yourself or your book club. My reviews are on the way but meanwhile you can read Aussie WordPress blogger ‘Whispering Gums’ excellent review here.

The above questions are rhetorical.

Penguin: https://www.penguin.com.au/articles/3908-a-introductory-guide-to-australian-author-richard-flanagan
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Flanagan