Richard Flanagan

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RICHARD FLANAGAN was born in Longford, Tasmania in 1961. 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 twenty six countries. He directed a feature film version of The Sound Of One Hand Clapping. A collection of his essays is published as And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?.

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Feb 1

Richard Flanagan on Classics.

by Richard Flanagan on 1 February 2012

Of late, great novels have acquired the added allure of the derided and the denied. Though not yet forbidden, children are taught that there are no such things as novels but only texts, or, in a fashionable variant, data; our multi-streaming media constantly repeats that if there are novels they are from the past, dying or dead, exotic strange things like a Himalayan snow leopard or Barbary lion,...

I thought it would be a breeze to write about ten of my favourite Australian books for Australia Day, but each time I have thought about bringing my fingers to the keyboard, I change the books I want to include. One solution is to restrict myself to fiction only. Of course this means I won’t be able to mention Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson (but this would be perfect to get...

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