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2014 Winner

Richard Flanagan is the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH, published by Chatto & Windus.

The Tasmanian-born author is the third Australian to win the coveted prize, which, for the first time in its 46-year history, is now expanded to include entries from writers of all nationalities, writing originally in English and published in the UK. He joins an impressive literary canon of former winners, including fellow Australians Thomas Kenneally (SCHINDLER'S ARK, 1982) and Peter Carey (OSCAR & LUCINDA, 1988 and THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, 2001).

2014 Shortlist

• TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR by Joshua Ferris (Viking)
• THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
• WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
• J by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
• THE LIVES OF OTHERS by Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
• HOW TO BE BOTH by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
   

2014 Longlist

• TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR by Joshua Ferris (Viking)
• THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
• WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
• THE BLAZING WORLD by Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
• J by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
• THE WAKE by Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
• THE BONE CLOCKS by David Mitchell (Sceptre)
• THE LIVES OF OTHERS by Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
• US by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
• THE DOG by Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate)
• ORFEO by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
• HOW TO BE BOTH by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
• HISTORY OF THE RAIN by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)