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Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer. Her first book, Thicker Than Water, is about the settlement of Australia. It 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. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment, is an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming lands once occupied by humans, such as Canvey Wick in Essex, and Chernobyl. Islands of Abandonment won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. It was short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and the British Academy Book Prize.
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| dbo:abstract | Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer. Her first book, Thicker Than Water, is about the settlement of Australia. It 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. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment, is an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming lands once occupied by humans, such as Canvey Wick in Essex, and Chernobyl. Islands of Abandonment won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. It was short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and the British Academy Book Prize. Flyn is the deputy editor of the literary recommendations website Five Books. She has written for publications including Granta, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. In 2019 she was awarded a MacDowell fellowship, which she used to work on Islands of Abandonment. She was declared 'Young Writer of the Year' by The Sunday Times in 2022. Flyn has an MA in experimental psychology (2005) from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and an NCTJ certificate in newspaper journalism from Lambeth College. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer. Her first book, Thicker Than Water, is about the settlement of Australia. It 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. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment, is an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming lands once occupied by humans, such as Canvey Wick in Essex, and Chernobyl. Islands of Abandonment won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. It was short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and the British Academy Book Prize. (en) |
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