Flanagan was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for his latest book at a ceremony in London.
Acclaimed author Richard Flanagan has refused to accept almost $100,000 for winning a British literature award until the prize’s major sponsor releases a plan to divest from fossil fuels.at a ceremony in London on Tuesday night .Adam Gibson
Flanagan, who is currently hiking through Tasmania, thanked the company for helping fund the £50,000 prize and noted it had an “already minimal” investment in hydrocarbons and saw no future in them. “And were I not to speak of the terrifying impact fossil fuels are having on my island home – that same vanishing world that spurred to writeThe Baillie Gifford Prize judges describedas “an astonishingly accomplished meditation on memory, history, trauma, love and death – and an intricately woven exploration of the chains of consequence that frame a life.”
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