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Chris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic. [1]
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]
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Flynn has resided in Melbourne, Australia since 1999. [18] [19]
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