Australian author Richard Flanagan has become the only writer to win both the Booker Prize for fiction and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. However, he has said he is not accepting the prize money for his latest win yet.
The winner of an 'unprecedented' literary double has said he will not accept his latest £50,000 prize until the sponsor shares a plan to reduce its 'investment in fossil fuel extraction'. Richard Flanagan has been named the winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for his memoir Question 7 - a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction, for his sixth novel, The Narrow Road To The Deep North.
A number of book festivals and arts events pulled out of their partnerships with the company, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hay Festival and Wigtown Book Festival. In his speech, Flanagan went on to say that the 'world is complex, these matters are difficult, none of us are clean, all of us are complicit', and that while Baillie Gifford's direct investment in fossil fuel extraction is 'already minimal', he would like to see it reduced further.
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