LONDON: Australian author Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, set during the building of the Thailand-Burma “Death Railway” in World War Two, won Britain’s prestigious £50,000 ($79,530) Man Booker literature prize yesterday.
Flanagan, 53, is ranked among Australia’s finest novelists. In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Flanagan takes up the story of Allied prisoners of war used as forced labour by the Japanese to build the notorious railway line. A trophy was presented to Flanagan by Prince Charles’s wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. reuters
