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Baillie Gifford Prize · 2024 · Winner

Penguin Random House AustraliaSeptember 5, 2023nonfictionISBN 9781760900915

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Baillie Gifford Prize	2024	Winner

About This Book

A memoir that ranges from the discovery of the laser to the bombing of Hiroshima to the author's near-drowning to the Tasmanian wilderness, weaving together personal history with the history of catastrophe. Winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize.

About the Author

Richard FlanaganAustralian

Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, and grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery. Descended from Irish convicts, his father survived the Burma Death Railway. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours from the University of Tasmania and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he obtained a Master of Letters in History. Read more →