Adrian Hyland

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Adrian Hyland (born August 23, 1954 in Camperdown ( Victoria )) is an Australian writer, who became known for his crime novels from the Australian outback .

Life

Adrian Hyland, son of Tony Hyland and his wife Molly, spent his childhood in Laverton, about 17 km southwest of Melbourne , where his father worked at what was then the Royal Australian Air Force Base . Hyland's ancestors were of Irish descent and moved to western Victoria as farmers around 1850. The father of his wife Molly, Hans Knorr, came from Bamberg and came to Australia as a prisoner of war during the Second World War , where he became a well-known sculptor .

In Altona, west of Melbourne, Hyland attended elementary school and St Paul's High School, where he learned Latin and Greek, among other things. After dropping out of law school at Melbourne University in the 1970s, he switched to literary studies and languages ( Chinese , Indonesian , Icelandic and Old English ). From 1979, immediately after completing his studies, Hyland worked for around 10 years in the outback of the Northern Territories . At first he did odd jobs, later he was coordinator of a supply station and lived in the communities of the Warlpiri , Alyawarre and Whyungu Aborigines .

Hyland traveled to China about half a dozen times, a total of about two years. In 1985 he studied Chinese there to improve his own language skills, but also taught English as a foreign language. He traveled more intensively to northwest China (provinces Qīngh Provi , Xinjiang and Tibet ).

In 1990 Hyland returned to Victoria, but kept going to the Northern Territories for short-term jobs. He completed his teaching degree for secondary levels I and II in 1993. After several years in adult education with Aborigines (in Victoria), Hyland completed his teacher training in 2000 with a Master of Education (M.Ed.).

Adrian Hyland still teaches English to international students today (2013) as a part-time lecturer at La Trobe University in Melbourne and lives with his wife Kristin and their two daughters Sally and Siena on a larger rural property in St Andrews (Victoria), 36 km northeast from Melbourne center.

With Hyland's successful first novel Diamond Dove (Eng. Outback Bastard) he created his serial heroine and protagonist Emily Tempest , daughter of a white man and an Aborigine. She returns to her old home in Moonlight Downs after school, university and long trips around the world . There she is confronted with the problems of crime, alcohol and violence of the residents.

Awards

Works

Emily Tempest series

  • 2006 Diamond Dove ( Outback Bastard; German by Peter Torberg . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2009)
  • 2010 Gunshot Road ( Cold Fire; German by Peter Torberg. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2010)

Others

  • 2011 Kinglake 350 (biography)

Web links

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ The personal details are from A. Hyland's emails on January 3rd and 13th, 2011
  2. ↑ cf. Focus from September 1, 2009
  3. ↑ cf. Interview with Scene of Crime on May 7, 2010 (English)
  4. ^ Faculty of the English language program at La Tobe University ( Memento of March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b In the USA and Great Britain as Moonlight Downs
  6. ↑ Extensive review on the crime thriller couch
personal data
SURNAME Hyland, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Camperdown (Victoria), Australia