Death of a River Guide

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Death of a River Guide
Cover of 1994 McPhee Gribble paperback edition
Author(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	0-86914-344-1
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 [edit]

• 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 [edit]

This novel has been translated into French (2000), Slovenian (2003), Dutch (2003), Spanish (2003), German (2004), and Italian (2005).

Interviews [edit]

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

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