Richard Flanagan

Son tells mourners he has lost ‘a great father’ who had been ‘deeply rooted in north Clare’

Pilita Clark: few speakers truly have the ‘wang’ to wing it

Sub-contracting responsibility for refugees to Ankara sees refugees as a threat to be kept out, not human beings in need of shelter

Novel is terrific and tells story of rural community faced with the coming of enclosure

Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief

Themes of war and real life dominate Dublin Literary Award shortlist

To mark Australia Day, our Literary Correspondent celebrates her literary wizards of Oz

'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' was great comedy - and journalism

The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001

With the Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan announced as this year’s Booker winner, we bring you 10 great novels from Down Under

The U2 singer’s iTunes apology had parallels with Richard Flanagan’s speech, but each came from a very different place

‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is a powerful and sometimes brutal love story

No Irish authors make the cut but two US writers feature for the first time