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Death of a River Guide
Cover of 1994 McPhee Gribble paperback editionAuthor(s) Richard Flanagan Cover artist Design: Beth McKinlay; Illustration: Patrick Hall Country Australia Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher McPhee Gribble, Australia Publication date 1994 Media type Print Paperback Pages 326 pp ISBN 0869143441 OCLC Number 32780236 Dewey Decimal 823 20 LC Classification PR9619.3.F525 D43 1994 Followed by The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997) Death of a River Guide is a 1994 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan. Death of a River Guide was Flanagan's first novel.
Awards
- Festival Awards for Literature (SA), National Fiction Award, 1996: winner
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Shaeffer Pen Prize for First Fiction, 1995: winner
- NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1995: shortlisted
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995: shortlisted
Notes
This novel has been translated into French (2000), Slovenian (2003), Dutch (2003), Spanish (2003), German (2004), and Italian (2005).
Interviews
- "The Write Stuff" - interview by Giles Hugo [1]
Categories:- 1994 novels
- Books set within one day
- Novels by Richard Flanagan
- Debut novels
- Novels set in Tasmania
- 1990s novel stubs
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