Death of a River Guide

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Death of a River Guide
McPhee Gribble, 1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide front cover.jpg
Cover of 1994 McPhee Gribble paperback edition
AuthorRichard Flanagan
Cover artistDesign: Beth McKinlay; Illustration: Patrick Hall
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherMcPhee Gribble, Australia
Publication date
1994
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages326 pp
ISBN0-86914-344-1
OCLC32780236
823 20
LC ClassPR9619.3.F525 D43 1994
Followed byThe 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.[1]

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), Italian (2005), Polish (2017) and Bulgarian (2018).

Interviews[]

  • "The Write Stuff" - interview by Giles Hugo [1]

References[]


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