Name: Chris Flynn
Address: AU

CHRIS FLYNN is an Irish Australian author who lives in regional Victoria, a few hours from Melbourne.

He has written three novels, a collection of short stories, and three books for children. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, The Australian, Griffith Review, Monster Children, McSweeney's, The Paris Review and many other publications. His books have been shortlisted for and won prizes such as the Commonwealth Prize, Indie Book Award, Russell Prize for Humour, Aurealis Award and Queensland Premier's Literary Award. His work has been compared to that of Salvador Dali, Etgar Keret, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges & Aesop (ABC); Irvine Welsh & Elizabeth Gilbert (Daily Telegraph); Thea Astley & Italo Calvino (Guardian); Roald Dahl & Edgar Allen Poe (Good Reading).

Chris's next novel will be released in April 2025, through Hachette Australia.

Find Chris @flythefalcon on Instagram.

For media inquiries and festival invitations, contact Brendan Fredericks.

HERE BE LEVIATHANS (UQP, 2022)

A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey test pilot launches into space.

The stories in HERE BE LEVIATHANS take us from the storm drains under Las Vegas to the Alaskan wilderness; the rainforests of Queensland to the Chilean coastline. Narrated in Chris Flynn's unique and hilarious style by animals, places, objects and even the (very) odd human, these stories push the boundaries of the form by examining human behaviour from the perspective of the outsider.

MAMMOTH (UQP, 2020)

Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007.

By tracing how and why these fossils were unearthed, MAMMOTH leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to 19th Century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world.

With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, MAMMOTH scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.

HORRIDUS (MVP, 2022)

TRICERATOPS: FATE OF THE DINOSAURS is a permanent exhibition at Melbourne Museum, featuring the perfectly-preserved 67-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of HORRIDUS, the most complete Triceratops ever discovered.

COMING APRIL 2025

The genre-defying new novel from Chris Flynn (Hachette Australia).