Australian Wins Booker Prize
The first Man Booker prize to allow American nominees was on Tuesday night won by an Australian, with Richard Flanagan (pictured) triumphing for a “magnificent novel of love and war†that tells the harrowing stories of prisoners and captors on the infamous Burma railway. Flanagan won for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” and followed Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey to become the third Australian to win the prize. I’d read three or four of this year’s Booker nominees, but not the Flanagan. I guess I’ll have to remedy that lapse now.
