Maria is interviewed in the U.K Magazine Metro. Here’s an excerpt:
‘My favourite form is tragedy,’ offers Hyland; she teaches creative writing at Manchester University and eschews more fashionable texts to go for the jugular with Aristotle’s Poetics.
‘And if it’s not grotesque, intense, perhaps on some level violent, offering menace or threat then it’s a bad [...]
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Interview with Maria in Metro Magazine
Saturday, July 11th, 2009MJ Hyland interviews Colm Toíbín
Sunday, May 10th, 2009MJ’s Interview with Colm Toibin in the latest issue of The Manchester Review
Colm Toíbín is the multi-award winning author of five novels and more than 10 works of non-fiction. His awards include the Encore award (for The Heather Blazing), the E.M. Forster award, and the International IMPAC Dublin award (for The Master). I’ve been a [...]
Carry Me Down – MJ Hyland interviewed in Three Monkeys Online
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Three Monkeys Online has a lengthy interview with MJ Hyland, to discuss Carry Me Down in particular, and her work in general.
Some sample quotes:
“On the first reading it should be superficially simple, but engaging, with a strong narrative pull. I intend to give the reader a reason to turn the page, so a good story [...]
Maria Hyland interviewed in Bella Online
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Here’s an extract from an interview that Maria did with M.E.Wood, the literary fiction editor of Bella Online when Carry Me Down was published
Moe: What inspires you?
M.J. Hyland: Many things inspire me, especially great films. Most recently I was inspired by the film, Darling, directed by John Schlesinger, starring two of the finest actors of [...]
How the Light Gets In Interview with Sinead Gleeson
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Here’s part of an old interview Maria did with Irish journalist Sinead Gleeson, around the time that How the light gets in was published in the UK and Ireland
Why did you pick a teenage girl as the protagonist in this novel?
I didn’t set out to write about a teenage girl, it was mostly an [...]