DELIGHTFUL SATURDAYS WITH MY FAVORITE AUTHORS AND POETS (56)

RICHARD FLANAGAN

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Good morning friends,

Happy International Men’s Day to all the gentlemen. That’s why I am featuring two male writers, an authors and a poet. Today I am going to share information about the popular Australian author, writer, movie director and screenwriter, Richard Miller Flanagan.

Richard Miller Flanagan was born in 1961 at Longford, Tasmania, as the fifth child of the six children of his parents, Arch and Helen Flanagan. His father, somehow, managed to survive the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers,  Martin Flanagan, is Australian rules football journalist.

Flanagan was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss at birth but underwent treatment for his hearing impairment at the age of six. He was raised at Rosebery, a small mining community on Tasmania’s west coast.

At the age of 16, Flanagan dropped out of  school but later went back to finish his  studies at the University of Tasmania, where  he served as president of the Tasmanian  University Union in 1983. He received a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honors upon graduation. He received a Rhodes Scholarship the next year and was accepted to Worcester College, Oxford, where he earned a Master of Letters in History degree.

Flanagan commenced his writing career by authoring four non-fiction books. He did ghostwriting for an Australian conman, John Friedrich. The book was titled ‘Codename Iago’ and was the autobiography of Friedrich who committed suicide while the book was still in progress. It got published posthumously.

Le Monde, The Daily Telegraph (London),  Suddeutsche Zeitung, The Monthly,The New York Times, and The New Yorker are just a few of the worldwide and Australian publications forwhich Flanagan has written about literature,  the environment, art, and politics. 
His writings have generated controversy at  times. The link between the Bacon  government and business interests in the  state was criticised in “The Selling-out of Tasmania,” a book that was released in 2004 following the death of former  Premier Jim Bacon.

He was honored with the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

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His list of awards and honors also include :

(1996) National Fiction Award for Death of a River Guide

(1995) Victorian Premier’s Prize for Best First Fiction (for Death of a River Guide)

(1998) National Booksellers award for Best Book for The Sound of One Hand Clapping

(1998) Victorian Premier’s Prize for Best Novel The Sound of One hand Clapping

(2002) Australian Literary Society Gold Medal (for Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish)

(2002) Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction for Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

(2002) The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish)

(2008) Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction (for Wanting)

(2009) Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction (for Wanting)

(2011) Tasmania Book Prize (for Wanting)

(2014) Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2014) Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2014) The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2014) Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Prize (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2015) Margaret Scott Prize (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2016) The Athens Prize for Literature (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2016) Lire Prix du meilleur livre étranger (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

(2019) Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

(2020) Honorary Fellow of the Modern Languages Association

His most popular works:

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Hats off to this creative genius who has enriched the world of English literature with his exemplary works of fiction and non-fiction. He would continue to inspire upcoming budding talented authors with his books.

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