James Flint is a British novelist and journalist. Born in

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in 1968, he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the ''

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'' in

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before studying

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and

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. On graduating he spent a year in

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studying

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theory and technique, returning to the UK to take an MA in Philosophy and Literature at the

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. After graduating, he worked at ''

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'' newspaper in London, before becoming a contributing editor of the '' Mute'' magazine and a section editor of ''

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''. Flint is the author of the novels ''Habitus'', ''52 Ways to Magic America'', which won the Amazon.co.uk Bursary Award for the year 2000; and ''The Book of Ash'', which was inspired by the life of the nuclear artist James Acord and won the 2003 Arts Council Writers’ Award. He has also published a short story collection ''Soft Apocalypse – Twelve Tales from the Turn of the Millennium'' (2004: Au Diable Vauvert). His short fiction has appeared in collections published by

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, the New English Library and the ICA. When it was published in France in 2002, ''Habitus'' was judged as in the top five foreign novels of that year's Rentrée Littéraire.“Rentrée Littéraire” is translated as “Literary Return” in English. In 2002, one of Flint's stories (''The Nuclear Train'') was filmed for

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by the director Dan Saul. Flint also scripted the film installatio
''Little Earth''
and co-wrote 'Like an Octogenarian' with Sebastian Doggart for

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's 2006 show ''15 Films About

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''. Between 2004 and 2007 he ran the Film Tent at the

Port Eliot Festival The Port Eliot Lit Fest was an annual festival taking place at Port Eliot in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It was founded by the late Jago Eliot, and ran over three days in July each year at the Port Eliot estate. Guests who have attended the ...

, which featured films and talks from filmmakers including

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and Kevin Allen. In December 2006, Flint took a full-time position as the digital Arts and Features editor at the

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. In 2007 he oversaw the set up and launch o
Telegraph Earth
and was subsequently promoted to be the editorial head of digital development. After spending a year as General Manager of Telegraph TV, he was appointed editor of the weekly world edition of the Telegraph newspaper and its sister websit
telegraph.co.uk/expat
As of July 2021, he is currently the co-founder and CEO of the health communications start-up

Hospify Hospify is secure clinical messaging software similar to WhatsApp. The company is based in Lancashire. The software was created by James Flint, Neville Dastur and Charles Nduka in 2014. Dastur and Nduka are surgeons. The paid version is calle ...

Published work

* ''Habitus'', James Flint (UK, Fourth Estate, 1998, ) * ''52 Ways to Magic America'', James Flint (UK, Fourth Estate, 2002, ) * ''The Book of Ash'', James Flint (UK, Penguin, 2004, ) * ''

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: 12 récits pour le nouveau millénaire'', James Flint rance, Au Diable Vauvert, 2004, VAU 0642* ''Midland'', James Flint

References

External links

www.jamesflint.net

Hospify.com

Amazon author page
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