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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood on 2024 Booker Prize shortlist
18 September 2024
Sydney based Australian author Charlotte Wood has gone through to the shortlist of the 2024 Booker Prize, with her novel Stone Yard Devotional, which was announced on Monday 16 September 2024. If Wood were to win the Booker Prize this year, she would become the first Australian author to do so since Richard Flanagan in 2014, with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
The 2024 winner will be named on Tuesday 12 November 2024.
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Question 7, a memoir by Richard Flanagan
3 November 2023
Question 7 is the latest title from Tasmania based Australian author Richard Flanagan. Although Question 7 is a memoir, it sounds more like an action/thriller title:
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
Flanagan won numerous literary awards for his work, including the Booker Prize, and the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Prize.
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