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Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

~Richard Flanagan

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In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.

~Richard Flanagan

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Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

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The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

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I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

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My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

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You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

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I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

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I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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