Literature: Richard Flanagan with Man Booker Prize honored – TIME ONLINE

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14th October 2014 23:48 clock

The Australian writer Richard Flanagan | © Facundo Arrizabalaga / dpa

The prestigious Man Booker Prize for literature in English this year goes to Australian author Richard Flanagan. He receives the prize of £ 50,000 award for his work The Narrow Road to the Deep North . Also nominated were the

British author Howard Jacobson, Neel Mukherjee and Ali Smith and the Americans Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler.

Flanagan’s novel is inspired by the experiences of his father, who during the Second World War as a POW the Japanese was involved in the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway. Duchess Camilla presented the award in London the visibly agitated Flanagan.

This year writers from all over the world can get the award – provided that their work was originally written in English and published in Britain. Earlier, the price authors of the Kingdom, the State Union, Commonwealth and Ireland had been reserved.

Last year, the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton received the award for her second novel, The Luminaries . The novel takes place in New Zealand of the 19th century during the gold rush. Catton describes the life of a gold digger Walter Moody.

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