Mark O'Flynn was born on September 17, 1958 in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts. He worked in the theatre and had several plays produced. He had several works of poetry published which included The Too Bright Sun, The Good Oil, What Can Be Proven, and most recently The Soup's Song. His other works include a novella Captain Cook, a play Paterson's Curse, and his memoir False Start, A Memoir of things Best Forgotten. His novels include Grassdogs, The Forgotten World, White Light, and The Last Days of Ava Langdon, for which he won the 2017 Voss Literary Prize.
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