NPR: richard flanagan https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=356261654 richard flanagan en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Thu, 22 May 2025 13:43:25 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: richard flanagan https://www.npr.org/tags/356261654/richard-flanagan Book News: Australian Prime Minister's 'Nasty' Move Sparks Lit-Prize Furor Tony Abbott reportedly overruled a panel judging Australia's top fiction award, picking Richard Flanagan to share the prize. And one judge — famed poet Les Murray — isn't happy. Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:13:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/11/370074163/book-news-australian-prime-minister-s-nasty-move-sparks-lit-prize-furor https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/11/370074163/book-news-australian-prime-minister-s-nasty-move-sparks-lit-prize-furor

Tony Abbott reportedly overruled a panel judging Australia's top fiction award, picking Richard Flanagan to share the prize. And one judge — famed poet Les Murray — isn't happy.

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]]> Colin Dwyer Book News: Random House Promises Changes To Lena Dunham Book In <em>Not That Kind of Girl</em>, Dunham accuses a man she identifies as Barry of sexual assault. Yet "Barry" is a pseudonym — and the ensuing confusion has prompted her publisher to clarify matters. Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:57:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/09/369600711/book-news-random-house-promises-changes-to-lena-dunham-book https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/09/369600711/book-news-random-house-promises-changes-to-lena-dunham-book Not That Kind of Girl, is her first book.'/>

In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham accuses a man she identifies as Barry of sexual assault. Yet "Barry" is a pseudonym — and the ensuing confusion has prompted her publisher to clarify matters.

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]]> Colin Dwyer Australian Novelist Richard Flanagan Awarded Booker Prize The head of the judge's committee says<em> The Narrow Road to the Deep North, </em>the story of POWs in World War II forced to build the Thailand Burma Railway, is a "magnificent novel of love and war." Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:01:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356258506/australian-novelist-richard-flanagan-awarded-booker-prize https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356258506/australian-novelist-richard-flanagan-awarded-booker-prize The head of the judge's committee says The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the story of POWs in World War II forced to build the Thailand Burma Railway, is a "magnificent novel of love and war."

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