Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction. Flanagan was awarded the $63,000 Baillie Gifford Prize on Tuesday for his genre-bending memoir “Question 7.” He won the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
FILE - Winner of the Man Booker for fiction 2014 Australian author Richard Flanagan, author of ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, speaks after winning the prize at the Guildhall in London , Oct. 14, 2014. Flanagan was awarded the 50,000 pound Baillie Gifford Prize for his genre-bending memoir “Question 7,” which combines autobiography, family history and the story of the development of the atomic bomb.
Baillie Gifford Prize director Toby Mundy said that for the same writer to win the leading U.K.-based fiction and nonfiction awards was “completely unprecedented.” Hilton said Flanagan’s fiction background was evident in the book’s inventiveness and “narrative beat.”Flanagan was not on hand to receive the trophy in person at a ceremony in London. Organizers said he was trekking in the Tasmanian rainforest.
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