Flanagan imbues this most Australian of stories with a middle European sensibility found in the reserve of characters in Milan Kundera’s writings .. Flanagan tells an immortal story of faith and hope, its loss and rebirth …
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The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
-- Sir William Blackstone, (Sir Richard Flanagan type larrikin of the Commonwealth)

Heros A Question of Genius

Next week, Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan will receive the Commonwealth Writers Prize for what the judges called a work of genius. But his name is in the news for another reason. An ardent conservationist, he's boycotting the Southern Hemisphere's richest literary contest, the Tasmanian Pacific Region Fiction Prize, because it's sponsored by Forestry Tasmania.
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