Man Booker prize: Richard Flanagan wins with timeless depiction of war

Australian novelist picks up award for story of prisoners and captors on Burma railway in The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The first Man Booker prize to allow American nominees was on Tuesday night won by an Australian, with Richard Flanagan triumphing for a magnificent novel of love and war that tells the harrowing stories of prisoners and captors on the infamous Burma railway.

Flanagan won for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and followed Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey to become the third Australian to win the prize.

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