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'On Monday night, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced with a tie in the fiction category between A World of Other People by Steven Carroll and the Booker Prize and Queensland Literary Award winner, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. Both very interesting novels by two working class boys who are “making good” in the world of literature.'