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The 1998 film of The Sound of One Hand Clapping, written and directed by Flanagan, was nominated for the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin Film Festival.
Flanagan has written on literature, the environment and politics for the Australian and international press. Some have proved controversial. "The Selling-out of Tasmania", published after the death of former Premier Jim Bacon in 2004, was critical of the Bacon government's relationship with corporate interests in the state. Premier Paul Lennon declared, "Richard Flanagan and his fictions are not welcome in the new Tasmania."
Flanagan's 2007 essay, 'Gunns. Out of Control' in The Monthly, first published as 'Paradise Razed' in the Daily Telegraph, inspired Sydney businessman Geoffrey Cousins' high profile campaign to stop the building of Gunns' two billion dollar Bell Bay Pulp Mill.
He worked with Baz Luhrmann as a writer on the 2008 film Australia. A painting of Richard Flanagan by artist Geoffrey Dyer won the 2003 Archibald Prize. A rapid on the Franklin River, Flanagan's Surprise, is named after him.
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