M. J. Hyland

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M.J. Hyland is an ex-lawyer, the author of three award-winning novels and a lecturer in the MA Fiction Programme in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. She also runs The Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm www.editingfirm.com

Hyland's agent for all rights, including film rights is Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown. See +44 (0)20 7393 4492
gelleroffice@curtisbrown.co.uk

M.J Hyland's second novel, Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (2006) and won both The Hawthornden Prize (2007) and The Encore Prize (2007) and was shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2006). Carry Me Down was also longlisted for The Orange Prize (2007). Her third novel, This Is How (2009), was longlisted for both The Orange Prize (2009) and The International Dublin IMPAC Prize (2009).

M.J. Hyland has published non-fiction in The London Review of Books (2004), The Irish Independent on Sunday (2005), The Scottish Herald (2010), Best Australian Essays (2006, 2008, 2009 & 2011), The Financial Times (2011), Lonely Planet (2012), The Paris Review (online, 2011), The Sydney Morning Herald (2008, 2009 & 2012), The Guardian (2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012), and elsewhere.

Her short stories have been published in Zoetrope: All Story (USA: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008), Blackbook Magazine (2004, 2006 & 2007), Best Australian Short Stories (2006 & 2008) and in September 2011, her short story Rag Love, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. In August 2012, her long essay, 'Hardy Animal' was published in Granta - Medicine.

M.J. Hyland also teaches fiction masterclasses for The Guardian Masterclass, London (2010, 2011 & 2012), and The Faber Academy, London (2010 & 2011), and leads fiction workshops at major literary festivals in Edinburgh, Dublin, Hay-on-Wye, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, Paris, Rome and elsewhere.

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Lonely Planet Better than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) 10-Nov-2017

by Alexander McCall Smith , Don George , Isabel Allende , Steven Amsterdam , Kurt Andersen , Carol Birch , Stefan Merrill Block , Tom Carson , Bryce Courtenay , Sophie Cunningham , Mark Dapin , Peter Ho Davies , Charles Finch , Nikki Gemmell , Steven Hall , Keri Hulme , M J Hyland , Pico Iyer , Suzanne Joinson , Lloyd Jones , Stephen Kelman , Marina Lewycka , Peter Matthiessen , Frances Mayes , Jan Morris , Joyce Carol Oates , Tea Obreht , Keija Parssinen , Chris Pavone , DBC Pierre , Aliya Whitely , Joe Yogerst , Arnold Zable

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Carry Me Down 04-Jun-2006

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How The Light Gets In 31-Aug-2010

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This Is How 02-Nov-2007

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The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (The BBC Short Story Award) 22-Dec-2013

by Lucy Caldwell , Julian Gough , M.J. Hyland , Krys Lee , Deborah Levy , Miroslav Penkov , Henrietta Rose-Innes , Adam Ross , Carrie Tiffany , Chris Womersley

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The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 12-Sep-2011

by M. J. Hyland , Alison Macleod , Jon McGregor , Sue MacGregor

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Granta 120: Medicine (The Magazine of New Writing) 16-Aug-2012

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Le Voyage de Lou (Lettres anglo-américaines) (French Edition) 06-Feb-2012

by M.J. Hyland , Emily Borgeaud

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C'est ainsi (Lettres anglo-américaines) (French Edition) 06-Feb-2012

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to soma tou psematos / το σώμα του ψέματος 01-Jan-2009

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Il bambino che non sapeva mentire 01-Jan-2007

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