Richard Miller Flanagan is an acclaimed Australian writer, born in 1961. He achieved international recognition by winning the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and later, the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, becoming the first writer to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes.

Described as "one of our greatest living novelists" by the Washington Post, and "among the most versatile writers in the English language" by the New York Review of Books, Flanagan is considered by many, including The Economist, to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation.

His career also spans film directing and screenwriting. Flanagan was born in Tasmania, where he lived in the township of Rosebery as a child. He served as president of the Tasmania University Union and was a Rhodes Scholar. His novels, such as Death of a River Guide and Gould's Book of Fish, reflect his Tasmanian heritage, with settings like the Franklin River and Macquarie Harbour Penal Station.