27 October 2014
Last week's announcement that Richard Flanagan had won the Man Booker prize for fiction has propelled the Tasmanian-born writer into the international literary orbit, but it also has the local publishing community seeing stars.
Flanagan won for his novel The Deep Road to the Narrow North. He has said the most satisfying part of the prestigious award, which comes with prize money of £50,000 (A$91,000: $80,000), was "the recognition as a writer on the world stage".