Margaret Atwood and Australian Author Richard Flanagan

Australian author Richard Flanagan: Australian author Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker prize, according to Globe and Mail. Klein wins Hilary Weston literary prize Video Video: Margaret Atwood joins fight against planned housing development Video Video: A short-story revival in Canada? Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady weighs in If you were the British writer Ali Smith, you might be starting to get a wee bit peeved: Tuesday night the novelist failed to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for the third time. How to be Both , her tricky experimental narrative about a contemporary teenage girl and an Italian Renaissance artist, lost out to Richard Flanagans The Narrow Road to the Deep North , a sweeping Australian novel about the notorious Burma railway built by Japans prisoners of war. Smith was also nominated for Hotel World in 2001 and The Accidental in 2005. More Related to this Story Canadian writers excluded from Man Booker long list (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.