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Richard Flanagan knocks back $100k literature prize over sponsor’s fossil fuel links

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. Flanagan won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his latest book, Question 7, at a ceremony in London on Tuesday night (Wednesday AEDT). Richard Flanagan […]