The winner of the award
Of the Booker prize for the year of 2014 was the writer from Australia Richard Flanagan at a gala event at London's Guildhall Guildhall announced the winner of the man Booker prize for 2014 - the award was granted an Australian writer Richard Flanagan's novel about the " Road of death ".
53-year-old Australian writer Richard Flanagan received the literary award of the Booker prize for his novel " the Narrow Road to the far North " (The Narrow Road to The Deep North) - the story of Australian prisoners of war who worked on the construction of the Thai-Burmese railway between Bangkok and Rangoon during the 2nd world war (the Japanese created it to supply their troops). This route was called the " Road of death " is in the works for the construction of 400 km of Railways has killed more than 100 thousand Convicts and prisoners of war.
The construction of the " Road of death " is dedicated to another famous literary work - " Bridge over the river Kwai by Pierre Boulle (brilliantly directed by David Lin in 1957). Pope Flanagan played together during the war fell into Japanese captivity and in the construction of the Road