Richard Flanagan

Richard
Flanagan

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

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