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The narrow road to the deep north scooped an even bigger pool of prizes, winning the man booker and several national prizes and being shortlisted for several more, including the fiction section of the prime ministers literary awards. Each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. Thomas keneallys latest book is shame and the captives sceptre. Tasmanian author richard flanagan has won one of the worlds most prestigious literary prizes, the 2014 man booker, for his masterpiece of love and death, the narrow road to the deep north. Oct 14, 2014 australian author richard flanagan was awarded the 2014 man booker prize tuesday for his novel the narrow road to the deep north flanagans novel tells of an australian surgeon, dorrigo evans.

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