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Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf

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Australian writer Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford Prize for his genre-bending memoir "Question 7" Flanagan won the Booker Prize in 2014 for “ The Narrow Road to the Deep North ,” a novel that drew on his father’s experiences as a World War II prisoner of the Japanese military.

For the same writer to win the same U.K.-based fiction and nonfiction awards is “completely unprecedented”.

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