Tasmanian novelist Richard Flanagan has won the WA Premier’s Prize with his work The Narrow Road to the Deep North, at the West Australian Book Awards.
The novel, which tells the story of an Australian surgeon in a Japanese POW camp in 1943, has already won the 2014 Independent Booksellers’ Award and has been shortlisted for perhaps the most prestigious literary prize in the English-speaking world, the Man Booker.
