MJ Hyland

MJ Hyland has published short stories in Australia, Ireland and the USA.

Her latest novel Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2006.  

MJ Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent much of her early childhood in Dublin before moving to Melbourne, Australia.

As well as having her short stories published in Australia, Ireland and the USA she has also published feature length non-fiction in the London Review of Books, The Irish Independent on Sunday, British Vogue, BlackBook Magazine (New York) and The Guardian.

Hyland was also the Editor of the successful Australian literary magazine, Nocturnal Submissions from 1990 until 1999.

Hyland’s first novel, How The Light Gets In (Penguin 2003, Canongate 2004) was shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best First Book), the 2004 Age Book of the Year Award (Australia) and was joint winner of the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Award.

How the Light Gets In has been published in the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Holland, in parts of Europe and Israel.

Carry Me Down (Text Publishing/Canongate 2006), her second novel, was winner of both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region Best Book).

Hyland currently lives in Manchester, where she teaches in the Centre for New Writing at Manchester University.

Contact: Rogers Coleride White Literary Agency
info@rcwlitagency.co.uk