Martin Flanagan (journalist)
Martin Flanagan | |
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Born | Martin Joseph Flanagan 1955 (age 68–69) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
Occupation | Sportswriter, journalist, columnist |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | University of Tasmania |
Relatives | Richard Flanagan (brother) |
Martin Joseph Flanagan (born 1955) is an Australian journalist and author. He writes on sport, particularly
Life and career
Martin Flanagan is one of six children of Arch Flanagan, a survivor of the Burma
Flanagan has written 16 books, including the novel
The Game in Time of War (2003) is a collection of essays Flanagan wrote on the role that Australian rules football plays during wartime. He co-authored the non-fiction books The Line (2005) with his father Arch Flanagan, and The Fight (2006) with Tom Uren. Flanagan has also written biographies of Australian rules footballers: Richo (2010) on Matthew Richardson[6] and The Short Long Book (2015) on Michael Long. In 2023 he published a memoir called ‘’The Empty Honour Board’’.
Bibliography
Novels
- Going Away (1993)
- The Call(1998)
Poetry
- Shorts: Poems (1984)
Children's
- Archie's Letter: An ANZAC Story (2012)
Non-Fiction
- One of the Crowd (1990)
- Family Matters (1993)
- Southern Sky, Western Oval (1994)
- 1970 (1999)
- In Sunshine or in Shadow (2002)
- The Game in Time of War (2003)
- Faces in the Crowd (2005)
- The Line: A Man's Experience: A Son's Quest to Understand Arch Flanagan (2005)
- The Fight (2006) with Tom Uren
- Richo (2010) with Matthew Richardson
- The Short Long Book (2015) with Michael Long
- A Wink from the Universe (2018)
- The Tom Wills Picture Show (2018)
- The Art of Pollination: A Year with the Irrepressible Jane Tewson (2020)
- The Empty Honour Board: A School Memoir (2023)
Drama
- The Call (2004)
References
- ^ The Age Real Footy, The Age.
- ^ Austlit – Martin Flanagan
- ^ Flanagan, Martin (2011). "Why Tom Wills is an Australian legend like Ned Kelly". Australian Football. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ Flanagan, Martin (15 May 2008). "The history wars and AFL footy" Archived 22 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Age. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ Martin Flanagan, The Wheeler Centre.
- ^ Flanagan, Martin (20 March 2010). "It's farewell to Richo, the fallible Tiger hero who everyone felt they knew". The Age. Retrieved 15 January 2014.