Martin Flanagan (journalist)

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Martin Flanagan
BornMartin Joseph Flanagan
1955 (age 68–69)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
OccupationSportswriter, journalist, columnist
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Tasmania
RelativesRichard Flanagan (brother)

Martin Joseph Flanagan (born 1955) is an Australian journalist and author. He writes on sport, particularly

Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.[1]

Life and career

Martin Flanagan is one of six children of Arch Flanagan, a survivor of the Burma

Death Railway. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. He grew up in Tasmania, graduated in Law at the University of Tasmania, and now lives in Melbourne. One of his three brothers is Tasmanian author, historian and film director Richard Flanagan.[2]

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

Drama

  • The Call (2004)

References

  1. ^ The Age Real Footy, The Age.
  2. ^ Austlit – Martin Flanagan
  3. ^ Flanagan, Martin (2011). "Why Tom Wills is an Australian legend like Ned Kelly". Australian Football. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Martin Flanagan, The Wheeler Centre.
  6. ^ 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.