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Chris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic.
Bibliography
Flynn's first novel, A Tiger in Eden was released in Australia by Text Publishing in March 2012. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. His second novel, The Glass Kingdom was released in May 2014 and his third, Mammoth, was published in March 2020.
McSweeney's issue 41, released July 2012, 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, on The Paris Review Daily, the blog of The Paris Review. He has written for the Griffith Review, The Age, The Australian, The Books and Arts Daily Show on Radio National, Meanjin, The Big Issue and many other publications.
Mammoth was shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Indie Book Awards. Here Be Leviathans was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards.
Personal life
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Flynn has resided in Melbourne, Australia since 1999.
Works
Novels
- A Tiger in Eden (2012)
- The Glass Kingdom (2014)
- Mammoth (2020)
Short Story Collections
- Here Be Leviathans (2022)
Book reviews
- Flynn, Chris (June 2011). "". Australian Book Review (332): 42.
- Review of: Goldbloom, Goldie (2011). You lose these + other stories. Fremantle Press. ISBN 9781921696879.
References
- "Books and Authors – Text Publishing".
- "A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing".
- "Commonwealth Book Prize 2013 Shortlist | Commonwealth Writers". www.commonwealthwriters.org. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "The Glass Kingdom – Text Publishing". textpublishing.com.au. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- Flynn, Chris (2020). Mammoth. St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-6274-6. OCLC 1141451294.
- "McSweeney's Issue 41".
- "Odd Jobs Archives - The Paris Review". The Paris Review.
- Chris Flynn – Griffith REVIEW | Griffith REVIEW
- "Search". The Age.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Blog - The Big Issue". www.thebigissue.org.au. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013.
- "Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 January 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- "Bogan Billy from Belfast still quick to use his fists". The Australian. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015.
- "Nothing but trouble". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 March 2012.
- "A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing". textpublishing.com.au. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011.
- Windsor, Gerard (30 March 2012). "Pants man's past catches him unawares". The Age.
- Flynn, Chris (31 March 2020). Mammoth. University of Queensland Press (UQP). ISBN 978-0-7022-6274-6.
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