Richard Flanagan (1) (1961–)
Autor/a de The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Sobre l'autor
Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. He received a Master of Letters degree from Oxford University. His first novel, Death of a River Guide, won Australia's National Fiction Award. His works include The Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Unknown Terrorist, and four history books. mostra'n més He has received numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Gould's Book of Fish, the 2011 Tasmania Book Prize for Wanting, and the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He directed a feature film version of The Sound of One Hand Clapping. He was also shortlisted for the UK Indie Booksellers Award with The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This same title was won the Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer 2015. In 2018, The Narrow Road to the Deep North will be made into an international television series. The University of Melbourne has appointed him as the Boisbouvier Founding Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, a new professorship to 'advance the teaching, understanding and public appreciation of Australian literature'. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Richard Flanagan
Short Black 1: The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom (Short Blacks) (2011) 30 exemplars
Parish-Fed Bastards: A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884-1939 (1991) 1 exemplars
Flanagan Richard 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Hebbes 2 : 15 smaakmakers voor het voorjaar — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1961-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Australia
- Lloc de naixement
- Longford, Tasmania, Australia
- Llocs de residència
- Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia
England, UK
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Educació
- University of Tasmania
Oxford University (Worcester College) - Professions
- non-fiction writer
novelist
director
script writer - Premis i honors
- Rhodes Scholarship
Man Booker Prize (2014)
Membres
Converses
ANZAC Challenge January 2015- Richard Flanagan and Fiona Kidman a 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (gener 2015)
2014 Booker Prize longlist: The Narrow Road to the Deep North a Booker Prize (desembre 2014)
Richard Flanagan's 'Wanting' a Australian LibraryThingers (desembre 2009)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 20
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 8,269
- Popularitat
- #2,921
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 334
- ISBN
- 340
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 4
He is a river guide on the Franklin River in Tasmania and is fighting for survival as he struggles on a cliff in the rising waters. The story consists of flashbacks of his life and of his ancestors who were part of the penal colony, or miners or other trades trying to survive in the harsh landscape. Aljaz was a troubled lonely child of mixed blood who does not feel love or a sense of belonging to his past and yet this is what preoccupies his mind as he struggles to avoid drowning.
I found the story hard to follow as the timelines are all mixed up.… (més)