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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
Flynn's first novel, ''A Tiger in Eden'' was released in Australia by [[Text Publishing]] in March 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden/|title=A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2013 [[Commonwealth Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cbp-shortlist-2013/ |title=Commonwealth Book Prize 2013 Shortlist &#124; Commonwealth Writers |website=www.commonwealthwriters.org |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514142012/http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cbp-shortlist-2013/ |archive-date=14 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His second novel, ''The Glass Kingdom'' <ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-glass-kingdom/ |title=The Glass Kingdom – Text Publishing |website=textpublishing.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222144038/http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-glass-kingdom/ |archive-date=2014-02-22}} </ref> was released in May 2014 and his third, ''Mammoth'', was published in March 2020.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Flynn|first=Chris|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141451294|title=Mammoth|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=2020|isbn=978-0-7022-6274-6|location=St Lucia, QLD|oclc=1141451294}}</ref>
Flynn's first novel, ''A Tiger in Eden'' was released in Australia by [[Text Publishing]] in March 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden/|title=A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2013 [[Commonwealth Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cbp-shortlist-2013/ |title=Commonwealth Book Prize 2013 Shortlist &#124; Commonwealth Writers |website=www.commonwealthwriters.org |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514142012/http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cbp-shortlist-2013/ |archive-date=14 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His second novel, ''The Glass Kingdom'' <ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-glass-kingdom/ |title=The Glass Kingdom – Text Publishing |website=textpublishing.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222144038/http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-glass-kingdom/ |archive-date=2014-02-22}}</ref> was released in May 2014 and his third, ''Mammoth'', was published in March 2020.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Flynn|first=Chris|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141451294|title=Mammoth|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=2020|isbn=978-0-7022-6274-6|location=St Lucia, QLD|oclc=1141451294}}</ref>


[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|McSweeney's]] issue 41, released July 2012,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys-issue-41|title = McSweeney's Issue 41}}</ref> features a portfolio of fiction by Indigenous Australian writers, ''Terra Australis: Four Stories from Aboriginal Australian Writers'', curated, edited and introduced by Flynn.
[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|''McSweeney's'']] issue 41, released July 2012,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys-issue-41|title = McSweeney's Issue 41}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/odd-jobs/|title=Odd Jobs Archives - The Paris Review|website=The Paris Review}}</ref> on The Paris Review Daily, the blog page of [[The Paris Review]]. He has written for the [[Griffith Review]],<ref>[http://griffithreview.com/contributors/chris-flynn Chris Flynn – Griffith REVIEW | Griffith REVIEW<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[The Age]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/search|title=Search|website=The Age}}</ref> [[The Australian]], The Books and Arts Daily Show<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search – Books and Arts Daily – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<!-- Bot generated title -->|website = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/search/?query=chris+flynn|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224155741/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/search/?query=chris+flynn|archive-date=24 February 2014|access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref> on [[ABC Radio National]], [[Meanjin]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Frozen: On Translating Jules Verne's the Ice Sphinx · Meanjin · Literacy in Australia · Melbourne University Publishing · Classic English Literature Books · Australian Literary Journals & Magazines|url=http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/frozen-on-translating-jules-verne-s-the-ice-sphinx/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222044007/http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/frozen-on-translating-jules-verne-s-the-ice-sphinx/|archive-date=22 February 2014|access-date=2014-02-13|df=dmy}}</ref> [[The Big Issue Australia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebigissue.org.au/blog/chris-flynn/ |title=Blog - The Big Issue |website=www.thebigissue.org.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217035822/http://www.thebigissue.org.au/blog/chris-flynn/ |archive-date=2013-12-17}} </ref> and many other publications.
Flynn contributed to a regular column, Odd Jobs,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/odd-jobs/|title=Odd Jobs Archives - The Paris Review|website=The Paris Review}}</ref> on The Paris Review Daily, the blog page of [[The Paris Review]]. He has written for the [[Griffith Review]],<ref>[http://griffithreview.com/contributors/chris-flynn Chris Flynn – Griffith REVIEW | Griffith REVIEW<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[The Age]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/search|title=Search|website=The Age}}</ref> [[The Australian]], The Books and Arts Daily Show<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search – Books and Arts Daily – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<!-- Bot generated title -->|website = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/search/?query=chris+flynn|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224155741/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/search/?query=chris+flynn|archive-date=24 February 2014|access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref> on [[ABC Radio National]], [[Meanjin]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Frozen: On Translating Jules Verne's the Ice Sphinx · Meanjin · Literacy in Australia · Melbourne University Publishing · Classic English Literature Books · Australian Literary Journals & Magazines|url=http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/frozen-on-translating-jules-verne-s-the-ice-sphinx/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222044007/http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/frozen-on-translating-jules-verne-s-the-ice-sphinx/|archive-date=22 February 2014|access-date=2014-02-13|df=dmy}}</ref> [[The Big Issue Australia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebigissue.org.au/blog/chris-flynn/ |title=Blog - The Big Issue |website=www.thebigissue.org.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217035822/http://www.thebigissue.org.au/blog/chris-flynn/ |archive-date=2013-12-17}}</ref> and many other publications.


''Mammoth'' was shortlisted for the Fiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-01-20|title=Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/20/161529/indie-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120005004/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/20/161529/indie-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=20 January 2021 |access-date=2021-01-20|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref> ''Here Be Leviathans'' was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection at the 2023 [[Queensland Literary Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-02 |title=Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/08/02/234999/queensland-literary-awards-2023-shortlists/ |access-date=2023-08-02 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>
''Mammoth'' was shortlisted for [[Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction|Fiction Book of the Year]] at the 2021 [[Indie Book Awards (Australia)|Indie Book Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-01-20|title=Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/20/161529/indie-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120005004/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/20/161529/indie-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=20 January 2021 |access-date=2021-01-20|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref> ''Here Be Leviathans'' was shortlisted for the [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards#Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award|Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection]] at the 2023 [[Queensland Literary Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-02 |title=Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/08/02/234999/queensland-literary-awards-2023-shortlists/ |access-date=2023-08-02 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
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Born in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], Flynn has resided in [[Melbourne]], Australia since 1999.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 March 2012 |title=Bogan Billy from Belfast still quick to use his fists |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/bogan-billy-from-belfast-still-quick-to-use-his-fists/story-e6frg8nf-1226285395491 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301161058/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/bogan-billy-from-belfast-still-quick-to-use-his-fists/story-e6frg8nf-1226285395491 |archivedate=2015-03-01 |website=The Australian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=24 March 2012 |title=Nothing but trouble |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/nothing-but-trouble-20120324-1vqhg.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
===Novels===
===Novels===
*''A Tiger in Eden''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden/ |title=A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing |website=textpublishing.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115200903/http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden |archive-date=2011-11-15}} </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/pants-mans-past-catches-him-unawares-20120329-1vzap.html|title=Pants man's past catches him unawares|first=Review By Gerard|last=Windsor|date=30 March 2012|website=The Age}}</ref>
*''A Tiger in Eden'' (2012) <ref>{{cite web |url=http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden/ |title=A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing |website=textpublishing.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115200903/http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/a-tiger-in-eden |archive-date=2011-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/pants-mans-past-catches-him-unawares-20120329-1vzap.html|title=Pants man's past catches him unawares|first=Gerard|last=Windsor|date=30 March 2012|website=The Age}}</ref>
*''The Glass Kingdom''<ref name="auto"/>
*''The Glass Kingdom'' (2014) <ref name="auto"/>
*''Mammoth''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.uqp.com.au/books/mammoth|title=Mammoth|date=2020-03-31|isbn=978-0-7022-6274-6|last1=Flynn|first1=Chris}}</ref>
*''Mammoth'' (2020) <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.uqp.com.au/books/mammoth|title=Mammoth|date=2020-03-31|isbn=978-0-7022-6274-6|last1=Flynn|first1=Chris|publisher=University of Queensland Press (UQP) }}</ref>

===Short Story Collections===
*''Here Be Leviathans'' (2022)


===Book reviews===
===Book reviews===
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**Review of: {{cite book|last=Goldbloom|first=Goldie|title=You lose these + other stories|year=2011|publisher=Fremantle Press|isbn=9781921696879}}
**Review of: {{cite book|last=Goldbloom|first=Goldie|title=You lose these + other stories|year=2011|publisher=Fremantle Press|isbn=9781921696879}}


== Personal life ==
== References ==
⚫
Born in [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland, Flynn has resided in Melbourne, Australia since 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/bogan-billy-from-belfast-still-quick-to-use-his-fists/story-e6frg8nf-1226285395491|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301161058/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/bogan-billy-from-belfast-still-quick-to-use-his-fists/story-e6frg8nf-1226285395491|archivedate=2015-03-01|title=Bogan Billy from Belfast still quick to use his fists|website=The Australian |date=3 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/nothing-but-trouble-20120324-1vqhg.html|title=Nothing but trouble|date=24 March 2012|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref>

==References==
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Latest revision as of 09:05, 24 August 2024

Chris Flynn

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

Bibliography

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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 Fiction Book of the Year 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]

Personal life

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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Flynn has resided in Melbourne, Australia since 1999.[15][16]

Works

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Novels

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  • A Tiger in Eden (2012) [17][18]
  • The Glass Kingdom (2014) [4]
  • Mammoth (2020) [19]

Short Story Collections

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  • Here Be Leviathans (2022)

Book reviews

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  • Flynn, Chris (June 2011). "[Untitled review]". Australian Book Review (332): 42.
    • Review of: Goldbloom, Goldie (2011). You lose these + other stories. Fremantle Press. ISBN 9781921696879.

References

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  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. ^ "Bogan Billy from Belfast still quick to use his fists". The Australian. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Nothing but trouble". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 March 2012.
  17. ^ "A Tiger in Eden – Text Publishing". textpublishing.com.au. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011.
  18. ^ Windsor, Gerard (30 March 2012). "Pants man's past catches him unawares". The Age.
  19. ^ Flynn, Chris (31 March 2020). Mammoth. University of Queensland Press (UQP). ISBN 978-0-7022-6274-6.


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