M.J Hyland News and Events
Here you can find the latest news from M.J Hyland, including links to newly published stories, essays and articles, as well as details of upcoming fiction classes and events.
Here you can find the latest news from M.J Hyland, including links to newly published stories, essays and articles, as well as details of upcoming fiction classes and events.
The Times names This is How as one of the best books of 2009 in its Christmas Books Fiction Review. MJ Hyland appears alongside William Trevor and Margaret Atwood, in the Times list, which describes This is How as ‘ a pin-sharp examination of a young man’s troubled soul’ The full list is here Share [...]
In 2010 MJ Hyland will be running a writing workshop for the *Faber & Faber Academy *in Manchester. The workshop will be held on Saturday 13 March and MJ Hyland’s session is Session No.9. For details and how to enrol go to: Faber & Faber Writing Academy Share and Enjoy:
This is How makes yet another appearance in a major newspaper’s ‘books of the year’ list. This time it’s the Irish Times, where poet Vona Groarke writes: “Patrick Oxtoby is a damaged, brittle, ordinary man: his actions and their consequences are presented in deceptively transparent prose that balances honesty with integrity, and brutality with a [...]
More good news - Another major newspaper has picked This is How in its end of year roundup. The Financial Times has chosen This is How as one of its best novels of 2009. Financial Times fiction reviewer Angel Gurría-Quintana writes: “Hyland’s exquisitely crafted prose makes readers care for this emotionally stunted protagonist.” You can [...]
John O’Connell chooses This is How as one of his best books of 2009 in the New Statesman, describing it as a “masterly disquisition on the problem of motive”. The full list can be read here Share and Enjoy:
This year’s Man Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel, has chosen This is How as one of her books of the year! In a piece published in the Guardian, Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall, wrote: Mysteriously underrated among this year’s novels was MJ Hyland’s This Is How; but then, Hyland’s talent in itself is mysterious. [...]
More great news - This is How is included in The London Evening Standard’s list of the best books of 2009. Colin Burrows writes of the novel: “MJ Hyland’s This is How should have been on the Booker shortlist. She writes about people whose indistinct and confused desires lead them to be judged and incarcerated. [...]
Great news - This is How is one of the novels in the English Independent‘s Top 50 Winter reads list. “‘MJ Hyland’s sparse style and astute observations of human nature make this a simple yet beautiful novel that draws the reader into [the protagonist] Patrick’s awkward soul,’ says Michael.” You can read the list here> [...]
Maria was recently interviewed by Australian TV (ABC), and the 9minute interview is now online. In it Maria talks about her goals as a writer, the difficulties she faced when writing This is How, and gives some advice to aspiring writers. You can view the interview online here. Share and Enjoy:
This is How is one of the books up for discussion on the November edition of Australian TV ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club, hosted by journalist and publisher Jennifer Byrne. Guests discussing the book are David Marr, Di Morrissey, alongside regular panelists Jason Steger (the books editor of The Age and The Sunday Age), and [...]