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Richard Flanagan Q&A
Richard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and winner of the 2014 Booker Prize, spoke to us upon being longlisted
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The Booker Prize 1998
Part thriller, part psychological study, part farce, Amsterdam is one of the prize’s most polarising winners. Even Ian McEwan himself admitted it had a ‘rather improbable comic plot’.
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The Booker Prize 1999
J.M. Coetzee became the first author to win twice, following up his 1983 victory with Disgrace, an uncomfortable story of post-apartheid South Africa and sexual politics.
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The Booker Prize 2001
Punctuation and grammar went AWOL as Peter Carey became just the second novelist to win the prize twice, with an inventive and challenging take on the story of the outlaw Ned Kelly.