The Man Booker Prize for 2014 has been won by the Australian writer Richard Flanagan for his novel, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

The novel tells the story of how Australian Prisoners of War were forced to labour on the Thailand-Burma "death railway" during the second world war:

Flanagan is the third Australian to win the prize, after Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey.

Chair of the judges for the awart, AC Grayling, called the book: “an absolutely superb novel, a really outstanding work of literature.”

The Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English languare and published in the UK.