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University of Tasmania Alumni: Richard Flanagan, Neil Batt, Stephen Gumley, Peter Underwood, Sue Napier, Will Hodgman, Owen Walsh, Michael Tate
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781155899176
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Chapters: Richard Flanagan, Neil Batt, Stephen Gumley, Peter Underwood, Sue Napier, Will Hodgman, Owen Walsh, Michael Tate, Albert Solomon, Vivian Smith, Cecil Muschamp, Ian Cresswell, Donald Burns Blackwood, Peter Fogg, Nick Cretan, Eselealofa Apinelu, Brodie Neill, Davendra Pathik, Michael Ludeke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford. His brother is journalist Martin Flanagan. A fifth generation Tasmanian, Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania in 1961.. He as a child, he grew up in the mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast. Flanagan left school at the age of 16. He returned to study at the University of Tasmania, where he was president of the Student Union. He achieved a first class honours degree in 1982. In the following year was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. At Worcester College, Oxford, he was admitted to the degree of Master of Letters in History. In the foreword to Flanagan's 1985 publication, A Terrible Beauty - History of the Gordon, Bob Brown wrote, Australia has not heard the last of the Tasmanian wilderness nor, I happily predict, has it heard the last of Richard Flanagan. Holding a history degree, Flanagan wrote four non-fiction works before moving to fiction. His first novel, Death of a River Guide (1994), was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, as were his next two, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997) and Gould's Book of Fish (2001). Two of his novels are set on the West Coast of Tasmania; where he lived in the township of Rosebery as a child. Death of a River Guide relates to the Franklin River, Gould's Book of Fish to the M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1063090
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University of Tasmania Alumni: Richard Flanagan, Neil Batt, Stephen Gumley, Peter Underwood, Sue Napier, Will Hodgman, Owen Walsh, Michael Tate
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