Patrick Flanery is the author of the novels Absolution (2012), Fallen Land (2013), and I Am No One (2016). Absolution won the Spear’s/Laurent Perrier Best First Book Award (UK) in 2012 and was shortlisted for a number of other prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Translations of Flanery’s novels have been published or are forthcoming in a dozen languages. Other creative and critical work has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, Granta, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement.
Flanery holds a bachelor of fine arts in film and television production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a doctorate in 20th-century English literature from the University of Oxford. He is professor of creative writing and director of the Creative Writing Pathway in the school of English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. In 2019, he will publish two books: The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption, a work of creative nonfiction combining memoir and criticism; and Night for Day, a novel about the Communist witch hunts in Hollywood in the 1950s. In residence in 2019, he completed the first draft of a new novel.
