M. J. Hyland
| Maria Joan Hyland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 June 1968 London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, lecturer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2000-present |
M.J. Hyland (given names Maria Joan) is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This is How (2009). Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.Carry Me Down (2006) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
Hyland has twice been longlisted for the Orange Prize (2004 and 2009), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2004 and 2007) and This is How (2009) was longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize.
At the University of Manchester she has run fiction workshops alongside Martin Amis (2007-2010), Colm Tóibín (2010-2011) and Jeanette Winterson (2013-present). Hyland runs regular Fiction Masterclasses in the Guardian Masterclass Programme, has twice been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize (2011 & 2012) and she publishes in The Guardian How to Write series and the Financial Times, the LRB, Granta and elsewhere.
Carry Me Down (2006) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and The Encore Prize and all three novels have been longlisted and short-listed for several prizes: the Orange Prize (2004 and 2009). Carry Me Down has been listed as one of the Top 100 ‘Australian’ Novels of all time by the Society of Authors.
How the Light Gets In (2004) and Carry Me Down (2006) were shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2004 and 2007) and This is How (2009) was longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC Prize & The Orange Prize (2009). Hyland's short story, "Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes", which was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Prize (2012) and first published online by Granta, is story of the week in Narrative Magazine, US.
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