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Also Known As Richard Miller Flanagan
Born 1961 (age 64) • Australia
Awards And Honors Rhodes Scholarship • Man Booker International Prize (2014)
Notable Works “Death of a River Guide” • “First Person” • “Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish” • “Notes on an Exodus” • “The Living Sea of Walking Dreams” • “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” • “The Sound of One Hand Clapping” • “The Unknown Terrorist” • “Wanting”

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