Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan is the author of six novels; his latest is The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage Australia, ISBN: 978-1-741666700), about prisoners of war on the Burma Railway during the Second World War.
It has been hailed around the world as a masterpiece, won the 2014 Australian Indie Award, the 2014 Western Australia Premier's Book Award, and won the 2014 Man Booker prize.
Richard Flanagan speaks with Kim Hill before the announcement.
