Books win for authors and publishers Nov 12, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Waving off an unpopular measure. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Tales of outsiders take the honours Nov 3, 2009
Le could not be at yesterday's function, but in a speech read by his publisher, he thanked the judges for rewarding a ''collection of unlinked short stories from an ex-lawyer'' and said he felt ''like a petty thief on murderers' row'' in the company of the other finalists: Goldsworthy, Murray Bail, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Flanagan, Joan London and another first-timer, Sofie Laguna. Books, he said, ''are the truest means of telling and showing us to ourselves, that they do a strange,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Images of pure beauty Oct 21, 2009
The writer Richard Flanagan lamented the death of his friend and fellow Tasmanian with the observation that his wilderness photographs had ''ripped the cataracts from our eyes. Thirteen years after his death, his widow, Liz Dombrovskis, has sold his archive of 3000 images to the National Library of Australia for an undisclosed sum - driven, somewhat ironically, by the fear that the forces of nature so beloved by her husband might destroy his legacy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Judges are to be commended Sep 26, 2009
If you missed last week's news, the shortlisted fiction books are: The Pages, by Murray Bail; People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks; Wanting, by Richard Flanagan; Everything I Knew, by Peter Goldsworthy; One Foot Wrong, by Sofie Laguna; The Boat, by Nam Le; and The Good Parents, by Joan London. On the shortlist for the $100,000 nonfiction award are: Van Diemen's Land, by James Boyce; Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley, by Brian Dibble; Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, by Jenny... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Flanagan ‘Wanting’ is a poorly wrought Victorian soap opera Aug 16, 2009
Richard Flanagan weaves historical characters around unnatural desires ... WANTING By Richard Flanagan. (Boston Globe)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
Christine Brooke-Rose, "Amalgamemnon" Anne Carson, "Autobiography of Red" Georges Perec, "A Void" Eduardo Galeano, "Memory of Fire" trilogy Luther Blissett, "Q" Wu Ming, "54" Richard Flanagan, "Gould's Book of Fish" Milorad Pavic, "Dictionary of the Khazars" (which comes in male and female editions) Witold Gombrowicz, "Ferdydurke". Erica Jong, "Fear of Flying" (maybe). (Harper's Magazine)
Author subsidies may not be worth reading about Jul 17, 2009
Richard FlanaganPhoto: Roger Cummins ... "It is inconceivable that a national Labor Government would so casually destroy Australian culture in support of the free-trade zealotry that gave the world the global financial crisis," the writer Richard Flanagan said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Winton wins Miles Franklin Jun 19, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Tim Winton in the video of his acceptance speech. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Losing our voice May 30, 2009
The Australian book industry is fighting for its life, writes Richard Flanagan. Richard Flanagan. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Push for foreign publishers makes Premier's bad books May 25, 2009
Richard Flanagan open market "is big business" ... In a rousing oration that closed the festival last night, the writer Richard Flanagan argued that free importation would destroy thriving local publishers and damage our culture ... Richard Flanagan … open market "is big business". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A New Novel Explores Dickens' Messy Life May 24, 2009
and most ambitious novel about Dickens is Wanting, by the Australian--or if you like, Tasmanian--writer Richard Flanagan. Wanting begins when Dickens is mourning the death of his ninth child, Dora, and feeling increasingly alienated from his wife and from himself. (Time.com)
Go west for much respected spoken word May 23, 2009
THE author Richard Flanagan will wrap up a week of scholarly sessions, author talks and musings on the written word when he presents the Sydney Writers' Festival closing address tomorrow night. He is unlikely to indulge in hip hop, graffiti art, breakdancing or demonstrations of parkour. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Blown away' Tsiolkas takes prize May 17, 2009
Blown away' Tsiolkas takes prize - Books - Entertainment - theage. The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Melbourne's leading newspaper. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
On the shortlist May 2, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Local bookish types nominate their picks of the Sydney Writers' Festival program. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Monthly magazine meltdown May 1, 2009
The Herald journalist David Marr confirmed yesterday he had been approached by Professor Manne to write a 10,000-word piece for the next issue of The Monthly, and when he emailed Warhaft to discuss the piece, she knew nothing of it and had in fact approached the author Richard Flanagan to work on a similar subject. But on the Crikey website yesterday Mr Schwartz said: "It is an absolute untruth to say that Robert Manne commissioned pieces There were issues with Sally. Sally was very difficult... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Middle-aged white men corner the Franklin Apr 17, 2009
Richard Flanagan Charles Dickens, in love with a young actress, defends the reputation of an explorer and governor of Van Diemens Land who adopts an Aboriginal child as a scientific experiment. Ice by Louis Nowra A Scotsman arrives in 1880s' Australia with new technologies and grief for his dead wife, while his 21st-century biographer falls into a coma. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Winton short-listed for prize Apr 16, 2009
He will be up against another previous winner, Adelaide-born Sydney writer , for The Pages and previously shortlisted Richard Flanagan for Wanting. Acclaimed Sydney author, screenwriter and playwright Louis Nowra (Ice) and Melbourne's Christos Tsiolkas () round out the all-male five. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Franklin listing tops big week Mar 13, 2009
The others on the longlist, chosen from 55 entries, are Addition by Toni Jordan, A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz, Breath by Tim Winton, Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas, Ice by Louis Nowra, One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna, The Devil's Eye by Ian Townsend, The Pages by Murray Bail and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. Along with the Miles Franklin veterans Bail (whose Eucalyptus won in 1999) and Winton (Dirt Music, 2002), there are four new novelists: Jordan, Laguna, Thomas and Toltz. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
