Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as 'one of our greatest living novelists' and as 'among the most versatile writers in the English language' by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina tranger and the Prix du meilleur livre tranger as a novel, and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is
the first and only author ever to have won both the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes.
A major television series of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is forthcoming, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarn Hinds.