Tom Flood


Tom Flood is an Australian novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. His is best known for authoring the novel Oceana Fine for which he won several of Australia's top literary prizes; among them the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.

Life and career

Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, and grew up in Western Australia. He is the son of Dorothy Hewett and Les Flood. He is the brother of Joe Flood, Michael Flood, Kate Lilley and Rozanna Lilley. In his early years he worked variously as a paper boy, a tuna fisherman, a bus conductor and a rock musician.
Flood's first novel Oceana Fine won the 1988 Australian/Vogel Literary Award, the 1990 Miles Franklin Award and the 1990 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. He has had a handful of short stories published in newspapers and journals, both Australian and international.
In 2001 he won the Banjo Paterson Writing Award in the prose category for his short story "The Old Trails".

Works

Novels

  • ''Oceana Fine''

    Plays

  • ''Model Citizen''

    Short stories

  • "Devegetation"
  • "A Taste of Writing : Word of Mouth"
  • "Tattoo"
  • "Birdland"
  • "Apostrophe"
  • "The Old Trails"
  • "Countercharacter No. 3"
  • "Countercharacter No. 4"
  • "In the Skin"

    Other

  • "Snapshots and Memory's Alchemy", criticism
  • "Deluge of Memory", review of Fineflour by Gillian Mears
  • "First Light, First Light, Touch a Star and Catch as Might" from a Work-in-Progress, extract
  • "Saying Father", biography