Richard Flanagan (1) (1961–)
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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. vis mere 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) vis mindre
Værker af Richard Flanagan
Short Black 1: The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom (Short Blacks) (2011) 28 eksemplarer
Parish-Fed Bastards: A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884-1939 (1991) 1 eksemplar
Flanagan Richard 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Hebbes 2 : 15 smaakmakers voor het voorjaar — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1961-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Fødested
- Longford, Tasmania, Australia
- Bopæl
- Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia
England, UK
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Uddannelse
- University of Tasmania
Oxford University (Worcester College) - Erhverv
- non-fiction writer
novelist
director
script writer - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Rhodes Scholarship
Man Booker Prize (2014)
Medlemmer
Discussions
ANZAC Challenge January 2015- Richard Flanagan and Fiona Kidman i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (januar 2015)
2014 Booker Prize longlist: The Narrow Road to the Deep North i Booker Prize (december 2014)
Richard Flanagan's 'Wanting' i Australian LibraryThingers (december 2009)
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Allie's Wishlist (2)
World Books (1)
Five star books (1)
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Og så er der det engelske handlingsspor, centreret om forfatteren Charles Dickens, som ca.10 år senere midt i en solid midtvejskrise sættes til af Jane Franklin at imødegå påstande om, at John Franklin og hans besætning under en polarekspedition har forsøgt at overleve ved kannibalisme.
Men det bogen egentlig handler om er lidenskab, savn, begær - og så som antydet civilisation samt kulturelle dogmer og fordomme. Hertil kommer der andre emner indover som pædagogik og ikke mindst ægteskabet som institution (og dets skuffelser).
Det bliver næsten for meget. Bogen vil for meget, men klarer det egentlig meget godt alligevel, til trods for at det bliver meget ujævnt. Noget af det bedste er portrættet af Dickens og hans miserable ægteskab og hans genopdagelse af kærligheden - og noget der altså bliver for firkantet er historien om aboriginalpigen Mathinna i familien Franklin.
http://bogbrokken.blogspot.com/2010/12/richard-flanagan-savn-2010.html… (mere)