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...In 2014 we chose as our winner Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Flanagan is an Australian, but that was the first year that Americans were eligible for the prize....
...The fact that an Australian writer has won this year – and only two Americans, Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler, made it to the shortlist – may quieten this debate....
...Review by Alexander Gilmour ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, by Richard Flanagan A brutal story of Australian PoWs in Burma....
...The themes of the chosen novels are wide-ranging, from US author Joshua Ferris’s struggling Manhattan dentist in To Rise Again at a Decent Hour; to Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a...
...Flanagan is regarded as one of the leading Australian writers of his generation. His novels, of which this is the sixth, have received numerous honours....
...Concerns about technology also seemed to play on the minds of novelists: social media in the case of Joshua Ferris’s Man Booker-shortlisted To Rise Again at a Decent Hour , the excesses of the security state...
...Flanagan is informed by his father’s experiences as a prisoner of war forced to work on the Thai-Burma “death railway”...
...“The bond market was looking for further signs of moderation and didn’t get it,” said Kevin Flanagan, fixed income strategist at Morgan Stanley....
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