MJ Hyland
Maria Joan Hyland (born June 6, 1968 in London ) is a British lawyer and writer who was awarded the renowned Hawthornden Prize in 2007 for her novel Carry Me Down .
Life
MJ Hyland, whose parents are from Ireland , spent her early childhood in Dublin and after attending school began studying English and law at the University of Melbourne . After her admission as a lawyer, she worked as a lawyer for six years. After completing her postgraduate studies in literature , which she completed in 2004 with a Master of Arts (MA Literature), she worked as a freelance writer in Melbourne .
In 2004 she gave her novel debut with How The Light Gets In that not only the prize for the best Australian novelist of the daily newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald received, but also finished third place in the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. The novel was also nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and the Age Book of the Year Award. In the book she presented the experiences of an exchange student in Australia as well as the experiences of growing up, which gives her debut novel also autobiographical traits.
Her second novel Carrie Me Down (2006) won both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize in 2007 . She also received nominations for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best novel. The novel, set in Ireland, not only addresses personality disorders in young males, but also marital conflicts in adults.
After leaving Australia in 2005 , she settled in Manchester , where she teaches at the University of Manchester's Center for New Writing . Most recently, in 2009, she published the novel This is How , which is about a man whose discomfort with the world and whose jealousy lead to a tragic doom out of an affective act. The Times literary supplement described the novel as “a devastating portrait of a mild mannered psychopath”.
Works
- in German (all translated by Ingo Herzke )
- Schlaflos , original title How The Light Gets In , 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-27099-1
- The List of Lies , original title Carry Me Down , 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-05115-6
- How a murder happens , original title This Is How , 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05345-7
Web links
- Literature by and about MJ Hyland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Private homepage
- Biography and Bibliography (Contemporary Writers)
- Biography (groveatlantic.com)
- Author portrait (perlentaucher.de)
- THE GUARDIAN: This Is How (Interview, August 21, 2009)
- Interview (bibliofemme.com, 2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE AGE: A heartrendingly domestic work full of compassion from MJ Hyland (book review, March 3, 2006)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hyland, MJ |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hyland, Maria Joan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |