QUESTION 7 author Richard Flanagan has refused to collect his £50,000 award for the UK’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, which he won last year. At the 2024 award ceremony, Flanagan said that he would not accept the prize until investment management firm Baillie Gifford came up with a plan to divest from hydrocarbon interests. “Toby Mundy, the prize director, confirmed on Wednesday that after a ‘detailed and candid conversation’ with the company’s senior partners, Flanagan had said he was not going to accept the money,” The Times reports. The sum will be donated to a literacy charity. Baillie Gifford […]
