Richard Flanagan

Raised in the mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania’s western coast, he left school at sixteen, later returned to graduate with first-class honours from the University of Tasmania and secured a Rhodes Scholarship that took him to Oxford for a Master of Letters in History. After ghost-writing a notorious autobiography, he turned to fiction, producing acclaimed novels such as The Sound of One Hand Cla… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources