Articles

• Flanagan, Richard, 2007, 'Out of control: the tragedy of Tasmania's forests', The Monthly, Issue 23, May 2007, pg 20-31.

In May 2007 at the height of conflict over the building of a pulp mill in the Tamar Valley, near Launceston Tasmania, Richard Flanagan published an article in The Monthly. In 'Out of control: the Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests' he writes passionately about 'the forests [that] are being destroyed in Tasmania, in spite of widespread community opposition and increasing international concern''.

• Flanagan, Richard, 2014, 'On love stories and Reza Barati', In And what do you do Mr.Gable? New and collected essays, Vintage, North Sydney, N.S.W., pp. 332-363. This is Richard Flanagan' celebrated closing address from the Perth Writers Festival, 2011.

• Romei, Stephen, 2017, 'Sting in the tale: Richard Flanagan crosses the lines between private and public selves in his new book', The Australian, September 29.

• Badami, Sunil, 2017, 'Flanagan goes one better with a web of fiction', The Weekend Australian Review, October 7-8.

From the Library's collections

Australian Story: Richard Flanagan

Imagine: Life after death: Richard Flanagan journeys with Presenter, Alan Yentob through his native Tasmania, visiting the places that have inspired his novels, and on to Thailand, to see first-hand the site of the Death Railway. O

From The Wheeler Centre

Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road of the Deep North

Interviews

• Kelleway, Kate, 2002, 'Hook, line and thinker', The Guardian, June.
• Smith, Michael, 2018, 'Man Booker winner Richard Flanagan's reluctant lunch', Financial Review, 26 April

First person

• Sales, Leigh, 2017, 'Richard Flanagan on his new novel First Person', ABC 7:30 Report, September 26. [7:37]

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

• Interview with Michael Williams, from The Guardian Australia on the release of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• Richard Flanagan in conversation with Richard Fidler. Richard Flanagan tells the story behind his Man Booker prize-winning novel. ABC Local. Conversations with Richard Fidler. Audio download (50:28) 14th October, 2014.
• Radio National's RN Books and Arts Daily. Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Audio download (48:15) 18th October, 2013.

General

• The Flanagan effect: Tasmanian literature in the spotlight. 2015. The Conversation
• Flanagan, Richard, 2018, 'The World is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone to.'The Guardian, 5 August
• Flanagan, Richard, 2016, 'Notes on the Syrian exodus: 'Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it'' The Guardian, 5 March
• Hay, Pete, 2014, 'Liberating the spirit of our island: Richard Flanagan takes Tasmania out into the world', The Mercury, October
• 'Richard Flanagan on the authors right to speak', 2009, Radio National: The Books Show. Audio [14:30]

ABC Splash

• Richard Flanagan - being a courageous writer
• Richard Flanagan on The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard Flanagan talks about the question of good and evil raised in this book.

The Man Booker Prize, 2014

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2014.

• Brown, Mark, Man Booker Prize: Richard Flanagan wins 'with a timeless depiction of war', The Guardian 15 October 2014.

• Richard Flanagan shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize. ABC News, 10 September 2014

Richard Flanagan's novel First Person is based on his own experience when he was asked to ghost write a book about the fraudster and conman John Friedrich (1950-1991).

• You can read more about John Friedrich in an entry by Frank Bongiorno in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Speeches

• Richard Flanagan delivers the inaugural Boisbouvier Lecture: Does writing matter?
• Richard Flanagan. 2017, 'We must honour and sustain Australian creators' Copyright Agency, 6 December

Fiction

Death of a river guide

• Reese, Jennifer, 2001, As I lay drowning, The New York Times, April

Gould's book of fish

• Banville, John, 2002, 'On fatal shore' The New York Review of Books, September

• Clark, Alex, 2002, 'In the hands of madmen', The Guardian, June.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

• Cartwright, Justin, 2015, 'The Narrow road to the deep north - beauty, bathos, and brilliance in equal measure', The Guardian, April.

• Charles, Ron, 2014, 'The Narrow road to the deep north', The Washington Post, August.

• Gorra, Michael, 2014, 'Bridge to nowhere' The New York Times: Sunday Book Review

The Sound of one hand clapping

• Sonenberg, Nina, 2000, 'The Sound of one clapping' The New York Times, April

The Unknown terrorist

• Conrad, Peter, 2007, 'Days of thunder erupt down under' in The Guardian, April

Wanting

• Charles, Ron, 2009, 'Ron Charles on 'Wanting,' by Richard Flanagan', The Washington Post, May
• Foden, Giles, 2009, Wanting, The Guardian, September

Essays

And what do you do Mr. Gable? New and collected essays (2015)

• May, Luke, 2011, 'And What do you do, Mr. Gable?' Readings, September