RICHARD FLANAGAN (b. 1961) is an Australian writer who is known for a series of critically acclaimed works, and widely considered to be “the finest Australian novelist of his generation.”  Each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours, including the Man Booker Prize.  He is also an environmental activist and the author of several influential works of nonfiction.  

His first novel, DEATH OF A RIVER GUIDE (1994), an account of a drowning man reflecting on his life and those of his ancestors, earned the 1996 Australian National Fiction Award.  It was followed by the highly acclaimed novel THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING (1997), a tale of the harsh life of a Slovenian immigrant family in Tasmania during the 20th century.  GOULD’S BOOK OF FISH (2001), about a 19th-century convict living in Tasmania, was awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book as well as the Commonwealth’s Regional Prize for best book.  THE UNKNOWN TERRORIST (2006) is a modern-day thriller that took aim at media-driven hysteria, and WANTING (2008) is a complex 19th-century tale set in Tasmania and England involving an Aboriginal girl and novelist Charles Dickens.

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH (2013), based in part on the experience of Flanagan’s father as a prisoner of war during World War II, was acclaimed for its brutally stark narrative of life as a prisoner and slave labourer as well as for its gripping examination of individual lives, personal relationships, and conflict that, despite taking place in a historical setting, was lauded as being relevant in modern times.  The novel received various honours, notably the 2014 Man Booker Prize.  Flanagan’s next novel, FIRST PERSON (2017), concerns a a struggling writer who is hired to ghostwrite a conman’s memoir.  In THE LIVING SEA OF WALKING DREAMS (2020), three siblings argue over medical treatment for their dying mother while the climate crisis worsens.  The work, which includes elements of surrealism, explores people’s refusal to acknowledge harsh realities, whether it is impending death or an environmental catastrophe.

AND WHAT DO YOU DO, MR GABLE? (2011) collects the best of his wide-ranging essays on everything from directing film and writing novels to a near fatal kayak trip; from baking bread to bushfires to art to war; from Kosovar refugees on the run to Jorge Luis Borges to his celebrated essay on the rape of Tasmania's forests, credited as a key to halting Gunns' two billion dollar pulp mill.  SEIZE THE FIRE (2018) gathers three of his recent speeches in which he interweaves topics as diverse as troubadour poetry, love stories and the murder of the refugee Reza Barati; his top ten Tasmanian novels and the Australian Pacific solution; and his much-celebrated National Press Club address where he questioned the militarisation of Australian memory and argued for the need for formal Indigenous recognition.


The following books are in ePUB format:

== FICTION ==

* Death of a River Guide (Vintage, 2012)
* First Person (Knopf, 2018)
* Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Atlantic, 2014)
* Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Vintage, 2012)
* Living Sea of Waking Dreams, The (Knopf, 2021)
* Narrow Road to the Deep North, The (Knopf, 2014)
* Sound of One Hand Clapping, The (Vintage, 2015)
* Unknown Terrorist, The (Grove, 2006)
* Wanting (Vintage, 2015)

== NON-FICTION ==

* And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (Vintage, 2011)
* Out of a Wild Sea (Vintage, 2011)
* Seize the Fire: Three Speeches (Penguin, 2018)

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