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.

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Video interview with Maria in Melbourne’s The Monthly

Maria returned to Australia for this year’s Melbourne Writers’ Festival, and Australian magazine The Monthly has posted online the video of this extensive interview with Michael Williams, where Maria discusses her approach to writing This is How, but also to writing generally. You can see the video online here Share and Enjoy:

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This is How shortlisted for the Guardian ‘not the booker prize’ prize

This is How has been nominated for the Guardian‘s ‘not the booker prize’ prize (thanks to any of you who voted during the longlist phase). Six titles were shortlisted, based upon votes received at the Guardian‘s book blog: Solo by Rana Dasgupta Tomas by James Palumbo The TinKin by Eleanor Thom Neverland by Simon Crump Intimacy by Jenn [...]

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Video of Maria reading from This is How

There’s a nice video piece in The Guardian where Maria reads from This is How, and is interviewed. The video can be seen here https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2009/aug/21/mj-hyland-this-is-how Share and Enjoy:

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This is How makes NY Times Editors’ Choice list

Great news - This is How is one of the books on this week’s Editors’ Choice list at the New York Times. This follows on from the great review This is How got last week in the same newspaper. “She makes it look so simple, with her words of one syllable, with a style almost [...]

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‘thrilling, moving and compassionate’ - The New York Times reviews This is How

There’s a wonderful review of This is How in the New York Times, written by novelist, poet, and literary critic Erica Wagner The full review can be read here Here’s an extract: She makes it look so simple, with her words of one syllable, with a style almost entirely devoid of affect; but there is [...]

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This is How longlisted for the Guardian ‘not the booker’ prize

This is How has been nominated for the Guardian book blog’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’ Prize! The longlist of 46 titles was compiled from books nominated by readers of the newspaper. If you’ve read and enjoyed This is How and want to vote for it, you can do so here: The Guardian ‘Not the Booker [...]

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The Globe and Mail review This is How

Novelist Kate Pullinger reviews This is How in Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. The full review is here. Here’s an extract: This is How, by Booker Prize-nominated British writer M. J. Hyland, is a novel of quiet and unexpected power. It takes a tired set of genre clichés and wakes us up by breathing new [...]

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Interview in the Boston Globe

Maria is interviewed in The Boston Globe, which describes This is How as ‘extraordinary’. The full interview is online here. Here’s a quick extract: Q: How did Patrick Oxtby arrive in your head? A: I read Tony Parker’s book “Life After Life: Interviews with Twelve Murderers’’ and I was struck by the case of a [...]

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This is How reviewed by the Daily Mail

The Daily Mail has a short positive review of This is How. You can read it online here Extract: The description of life on the inside is as remarkable for its authenticity as it is for the development of Patrick’s character. Alongside the relentless hopelessness, the struggle for existence itself and the constant undertow of [...]

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Geordie Williamson reviews This is How

Leading Australian book critic Geordie Williamson has reviewed This is How in the newspaper The Australian. The full review is here. Here’s an extract: Hyland’s writing, which has only increased in strangeness with each new book, emerges from a shifting of co-ordinates between cold-eyed clinician and artist’s empathetic heart. Her characters are constructed from the [...]

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