Brief Biography

Richard Flanagan was born in 1961 in Tasmania, and left school at the age of 16. He has been a labourer and Rhodes Scholar (to Oxford), and is married with three children. His brother is the Melbourne-based journalist Martin Flanagan.

Each of Flanagan's three novels has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and Gould's Book of Fish won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Bibliography

Novels
Death of a River Guide 1994
The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997
Gould's Book of Fish 2001

Non-Fiction
Student Accommodaton Crisis 1984
A Terrible Beauty: History of the Gordon River Country 1985
The Rest of the World is Watching 1990
Codename Iago: The Story of John Friedrich 1991

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