Richard Flanagan has become the first author in history to win both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction.Australian Flanagan secured the non-fiction award for his memoir Question 7,

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Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction

Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction for Question 7, a work that is part history and part memoir, which the judges described as a “meditative symphony of a book”. It is the first time in its 26-year history that the UK’s leading non-fiction prize has been awarded to an author who has also won the Booker Prize.