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Chris Flynn

Chris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic.[1]

Bibliography

Flynn's first novel, A Tiger in Eden was released in Australia by Text Publishing in March 2012.[2] It was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.[3] His second novel, The Glass Kingdom [4] was released in May 2014 and his third, Mammoth, was published in March 2020.[5]

McSweeney's issue 41, released July 2012,[6] features a portfolio of fiction by Indigenous Australian writers, Terra Australis: Four Stories from Aboriginal Australian Writers, curated, edited and introduced by Flynn.

Flynn contributed to a regular column, Odd Jobs,[7] on The Paris Review Daily, the blog page of The Paris Review. He has written for the Griffith Review,[8] The Age,[9] The Australian, The Books and Arts Daily Show[10] on ABC Radio National, Meanjin,[11] The Big Issue Australia[12] and many other publications.

Mammoth was shortlisted for the Fiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards.[13] Here Be Leviathans was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards.[14]

Works

Novels

Short Story Collections

Book reviews

Personal life

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Flynn has resided in Melbourne, Australia since 1999.[18][19]

References

  1. ^ "Books and Authors – Text Publishing".
  2. ^ "A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing".
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Book Prize 2013 Shortlist | Commonwealth Writers". www.commonwealthwriters.org. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b "The Glass Kingdom – Text Publishing". textpublishing.com.au. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  5. ^ Flynn, Chris (2020). Mammoth. St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-6274-6. OCLC 1141451294.
  6. ^ "McSweeney's Issue 41".
  7. ^ "Odd Jobs Archives - The Paris Review". The Paris Review.
  8. ^ Chris Flynn – Griffith REVIEW | Griffith REVIEW
  9. ^ "Search". The Age.
  10. ^ "Search – Books and Arts Daily – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  11. ^ "Frozen: On Translating Jules Verne's the Ice Sphinx · Meanjin · Literacy in Australia · Melbourne University Publishing · Classic English Literature Books · Australian Literary Journals & Magazines". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  12. ^ "Blog - The Big Issue". www.thebigissue.org.au. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013.
  13. ^ "Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 January 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  15. ^ "A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing". textpublishing.com.au. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011.
  16. ^ Windsor, Gerard (30 March 2012). "Pants man's past catches him unawares". The Age.
  17. ^ Flynn, Chris (31 March 2020). Mammoth. University of Queensland Press (UQP). ISBN 978-0-7022-6274-6.
  18. ^ "Bogan Billy from Belfast still quick to use his fists". The Australian. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015.
  19. ^ "Nothing but trouble". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 March 2012.


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