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Julia Leigh’s The Hunter at 25: a ruthlessly unsentimental tale of nature betrayed

Some time in the late 1990s, a man is hiking through Tasmania’s Central Plateau, hoping to kill a thylacine. He’s a mainlander, and he has come to a Tasmania that no longer exists: before MONA, before Jetstar, before secret saunas and mountain bike trails, before the Tasmanian Forest Agreement, before…

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Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Wood on the Booker prize: ‘The global attention is like nothing I’ve seen’

The author is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the $98,000 prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014

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First Aust writer in a decade makes Booker shortlist

Stone Yard Devotional author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the first Australian writer since Richard Flanagan to make the list.

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Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Richard Flanagan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Cockerell and Jonathan Blitzer also in running for £50,000 nonfiction award

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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

The Guardian - UK

The 25 best Australian books of 2023: Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Robyn Davidson and others

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

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‘A book the world needs now’, ‘tender’ and ‘profound’: the best Australian books out in November

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

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Morning Mail: Gaza City ‘surrounded’, stakes high for Albanese’s China mission, new Beatles song released

Israel’s assault on Hamas strongholds is intensifying amid fierce fighting; the prime minister prepares for his most delicate diplomatic mission

The Guardian - AU

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – this deeply moving book is his finest work

Blending memoir and history and auto-fiction, this brilliantly unique book by the Booker winner is a treatise on the immeasurability of life

The Guardian - AU

Books 3 has revealed thousands of pirated Australian books. In the age of AI, is copyright law still fit for purpose?

Thousands of Australian books have been found on a pirated dataset of ebooks, known as Books3, used to train generative AI. Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Tim Flannery are among the leading local authors affected – along, of course, with writers from around the world.

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Morning Mail: authors fear huge AI copyright ‘theft’, scorching weekend for east, Michael Gambon dies

Richard Flanagan says his soul has been ‘strip mined’ in alleged breach, and the world of showbiz mourns the ‘king-like’ Dumbledore actor

The Guardian - AU

‘Biggest act of copyright theft in history’: thousands of Australian books allegedly used to train AI model

Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan among authors whose work has potentially been pirated by US-based Books3 dataset to train generative AI

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Opponents, defenders of Tasmania's salmon industry as entrenched as ever as fish farming continues to grow

This chef vows he'll never serve it, while a local in a rural community says she is "sick of people coming from Hobart telling us we're unhappy with fish farms" — why is the salmon industry so divisive in Tasmania?

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Premier denies being outplayed by AFL over cash for bid

Tasmania's premier says he was not forced by the AFL into stumping up more cash as part of the state's bid for a standalone side.

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Macquarie Point stadium decision expected in weeks but Richard Flanagan and others have alternative vision

The federal government is being asked to help fund a new stadium at Hobart's Macquarie Point but a group of prominent Tasmanians, including author Richard Flanagan, wants it to consider an alternative.

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Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott's new novel Limberlost captures his climate anxiety and passion for the natural world

Climate anxiety is at the heart of Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott's fiction, with his latest novel, Limberlost, garnering rave reviews and awards buzz.

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Robbie Arnott's eco-fiction uses myth and metaphor to depict a wounded world

Robbie Arnott’s third novel Limberlost follows two impressive earlier works. Richard Flanagan described Arnott’s first book, Flames (2018), as “strange and joyous”. Bram Presser, responding to The Rain Heron (2020), credits Arnott with “singlehandedly reinventing Australian literature”.

The Guardian - AU

Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?

The prize still holds immense power for Australian sales, but a 2014 rule change made it harder for local books to get a look-in

The Guardian - AU

‘A national scandal’: Australian authors take aim at ‘woefully underfunded’ literary sector

Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner and Kate Grenville call for ‘vast inequity’ to be corrected, as planning continues for national cultural policy

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