Man Booker winner echoes fears over inclusion of US writers

Richard Flanagan says fellow Booker winner Peter Carey is rightly concerned about dangers of change for smaller cultures

The Australian winner of this years Man Booker prize has echoed the concerns of his compatriot Peter Carey about the fate of literature from smaller cultures in the wake of the decision to allow American novels to compete for the prize.

Richard Flanagans novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was the first winner of the prize under the new rules. Flanagans book about the wartime experience of prisoners and their captors on the Burma railway was chosen ahead of five other five other shortlisted writers, including two Americans, Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler.

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