Cal Flyn Explained

Cal Flyn is a Scottish author and journalist.[1]

Early life

Flyn was born in Inverness, Scotland. She attended Charleston Academy, a state secondary school.[2] As a child, she underwent orthopedic surgery to correct proximal femoral focal deficiency affecting the left leg.[3]

Flyn holds an MA in experimental psychology from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a NCTJ certificate in newspaper journalism from Lambeth College.[4] [5]

Career

After graduation, Flyn worked as a reporter for The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.[2] She left her job in 2012 to work at a dog-sledding kennels in Finnish Lapland.[6] Flyn is the deputy editor of the literary recommendations website Five Books[7]

She was made a MacDowell fellow in 2019.[8] In 2022, she was declared 'Young Writer of the Year' by The Sunday Times.[9]

She is the author of nonfiction books Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2022)[10] and Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets, and Guilt (2016),[11] and has published essays and articles in Granta, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times Magazine, and other publications.[12] [13] [14]

Works

Her first book, Thicker Than Water, tells the story of a distant relative, Angus McMillan, who is believed to have been one of the ringleaders of the Gippsland massacres of Gunaikurnai aboriginal people.[15] [16] [17] Her second book, Islands of Abandonment, is an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming lands once occupied by humans, such as Plymouth, Montserrat, and Chernobyl.[18] [19]

Islands of Abandonment won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing.[20] It was also shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation,[21] the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize[22] and the British Academy Book Prize,[23] among others.

Flyn's third book The Savage Landscape is planned for publication in 2025.[24]

Personal life

Flyn lives in the Orkney Islands.[25]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Holgate . Andrew . The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer Award shortlist: meet the young literary stars of their generation . 13 December 2022 . . 23 January 2022 . en . limited . https://archive.today/20220123075320/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sunday-times-charlotte-aitken-young-writer-award-shortlist-meet-the-young-literary-stars-of-their-generation-fsjtrzlpz . 2022-01-23 . live.
  2. Web site: Hadjidemetri . Anastasia . History, Secrets and Guilt: Cal Flyn, author of Thicker Than Water answers Booktopia’s Ten Terrifying Questions . . 2022-12-13.
  3. News: Flyn . Cal . I go to the hospital to lengthen my leg. So far! So good! . 13 December 2022 . . 14 September 2014 . en . limited . https://archive.today/20211018034819/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-go-to-the-hospital-to-lengthen-my-leg-so-far-so-good-zncqqkdltjz . 2021-10-18 . live.
  4. Web site: Cal Flyn . . 5 August 2021.
  5. Web site: LMH alumni writers feature in The Times Best Books of 2021 . . 20 November 2021 . 17 February 2024 . en.
  6. News: Flyn . Cal . My winter on a husky farm in the Arctic Circle . 13 December 2022 . The Telegraph Magazine . 20 December 2013 . en.
  7. Web site: Cal Flyn . 16 November 2022 . Five Books.
  8. Web site: Cal Flyn - Artist . MacDowell . 5 August 2021 . en.
  9. Web site: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year: Cal Flyn . 16 November 2022 . The Times.
  10. Web site: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape . HarperCollins Publishers . 2022-12-13.
  11. Web site: Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir . HarperCollins Publishers . 2022-12-13.
  12. Web site: Cal Flyn contributor page . Granta . 2022-12-13.
  13. Web site: Cal Flyn profile . The Guardian . 2022-12-13.
  14. News: Flyn . Cal . When Pollution Drives Evolution . 13 December 2022 . The Wall Street Journal . 3 June 2021 . en.
  15. News: Reid . Melanie . Books: Thicker Than Water — History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn . 5 August 2021 . The Times . 28 May 2016 . en.
  16. News: Lowry . Elizabeth . Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn review – my ancestor the murderer . 5 August 2021 . The Guardian . 2 June 2016 . en.
  17. News: O'Mahony . Ciaran . The Scottish explorer who became the butcher of Gippsland . 9 March 2023 . The Guardian . 7 March 2019.
  18. News: Jamie . Kathleen . How nature reclaims the places humans have abandoned . 25 February 2024 . . 20 January 2021 . en.
  19. News: McDonald . Sally . Wild and abandoned: Writer Cal Flyn charts her journey to the world’s disaster zones and ghost towns . 5 August 2021 . The Sunday Post . 16 March 2021.
  20. Web site: 2022 AWARD WINNERS: . 16 November 2022 . John Burroughs Association.
  21. Web site: 2021 Shortlist Announcement . Wainwright Prize . 5 August 2021 . 4 August 2021.
  22. Web site: RSL Ondaatje Prize 2022 Shortlist Announced . The Royal Society of Literature . 20 April 2022 . 27 February 2024.
  23. Web site: Shortlist announced for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021 . 13 December 2022.
  24. Web site: Spanoudi . Melina . William Collins scoops new book by Islands of Abandonment author Flyn . 2023-10-09 . . en . registration . https://web.archive.org/web/20240225161558/https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/william-collins-scoops-new-book-by-islands-of-abandonment-author-flyn . 2024-02-25 . live.
  25. Web site: Jana . Rosalind . Author Cal Flyn on the Landscapes Left Behind . 31 August 2021 . 13 December 2022 . TOAST Magazine.

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