Tom Flood

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Tom Flood
Born	17 May 1955 Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Occupation	Novelist and musician
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1988 -
Notable works	Oceana Fine
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award

Tom Flood (born 17 May 1955) is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia.

His novel Oceana Fine won the 1988 Australian/Vogel Literary Award and he has since been confined to mainly short stories.

Awards

• Australian/Vogel Literary Award, Oceana Fine, 1988
• Miles Franklin Award, Oceana Fine, 1990
• Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Oceana Fine, 1990

Works

Novels

• Oceana Fine (1989)

Drama

• Model Citizen (1993)

Reviews

• Oceana Fine
  • Westerly, Sept. 1990, p. 93-94
  • West Australian, 22 October 1988, Weekend p. XI

External links

• Countercharacter 4 (from Septimus Grout)