Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is an Australian writer. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Author Richard Flanagan on his mum – and one ‘vast achievement’ he’d overlooked
Replaying richly coloured memories of his mother Helen leaves the Tasmanian Booker Prize-winner overcome by regret, grief and gratitude.
- by Richard Flanagan
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Opinion
AFL 2023
As Albanese backs an AFL stadium for Hobart, Tasmanians are living in tents
Tasmania’s new AFL stadium has become a symbol of government inaction on the poverty and homelessness that blight Australia’s smallest state
- by Richard Flanagan
Opinion
Vale
Perhaps, behind the crown lies nothing at all
We lie to ourselves when we indulge in a mass hysteria proclaiming that at the centre there is something greater than ourselves. But perhaps a mass hysteria is exactly what is needed to make us continue to believe that eternal lie.
- by Richard Flanagan
Opinion
Morrison portfolio saga
Jabberwocky meets Captain Ahab as Morrison races down the rabbit hole
The nation is confronting a similar experience to Linda Blair in The Exorcist when her head does a 360-degree swivel exorcising the devil.
- by Richard Flanagan
Opinion
Crime
Salman Rushdie, Charlie Hebdo, violence and cancel culture
The author’s life kept on intersecting with dramatic events that became so commonplace it is difficult to imagine how someone might stay sane and work, defining himself as a writer and not a victim.
- by Richard Flanagan
Opinion
Australia votes
Morrison government’s fall marks end of Howard-era ascendancy
Every issue that defined Scott Morrison’s downfall had deep roots in John Howard’s prime ministership.
- by Richard Flanagan
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