Richard Flanagan is a natural raconteur. While some of his essays seethe with anger, his passion for literature is infectious.
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Australia’s bookshops are in trouble, and that’s bad news for readers. But there are ideas we could borrow from Europe to help make our bookshops healthy again.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a masterpiece of the Australian war genre.
Richard Flanagan’s novel is about to hit screens. How do its depictions of heroism and valour land in 2025? And were the raves right – or the pans?
In Question 7, Richard Flanagan writes of the contingencies of history, and troubles the distinction between truth and fabrication.
Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
Set in the smoky shadow of Australia’s 2019 and 2020 bushfire season, Flanagan explores the loss of our world through the shattering of a family.
The republic of letters was an intellectual community that took shape in the Enlightenment. And just like writers’ festivals, it had rules about who could speak.
Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prize has put Tasmanian writing in the spotlight – and the announcement of new state literary prizes has helped too. So what is distinctive about Tasmanian literature?
On Monday night, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced with a tie in the fiction category between A World of Other People by Steven Carroll and the Booker Prize and Queensland Literary Award…
Writing in the Bulletin in January 1899, Henry Lawson complained about the difficulties of making a living as a writer. In this article he offered the emerging author a piece of unvarnished advice: [S]tudy…
This morning the Australian novelist, Richard Flanagan, won the 2014 Man Booker prize for his sixth novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The novel centres on one of the key events in Australia’s war…
Is there still a Commonwealth culture? And, if so, will the “cultural flavour” of the Man Booker Prize, as two-times Booker winner Peter Carey recently described it, be lost now that Americans are eligible…
Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Giving his acceptance speech he said: In Australia the Man Booker is seen as something of a chicken…
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor, History, Macquarie University
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor (Regional & Metro), University of Wollongong
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Professor and Head of English, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Tutor in Publishing & Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney