‘I suspect they will continue to be read in coming decades and even centuries,’ Man Booker prize-winning author says
The Man Booker prize-winning author Richard Flanagan has called the Nauru files “an extraordinary trove of anonymous short stories” that will continue to be read long after his own work.
In a powerful and provocative keynote address delivered at the Melbourne writers festival, Flanagan said he had planned to speak about writers such as Márquez, Baldwin, Carver, Chekhov, Kafka, Tolstoy and Conrad – but then he read the Nauru files.
What Australian writer has so clearly exposed the truth of who we are?
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