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Adrian Hyland

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Adrian Hyland
BornAdrian Hyland
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Genrecrime fiction
Notable workDiamond Dove
Notable awardsNed Kelly Award for Best First Novel

Adrian Hyland is an Australian writer of non-fiction and crime fiction.[1]

Life

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Hyland lived for many years in outback communities of Australia after graduating from Melbourne University in literature, classics and Chinese language.[2] Family circumstances brought him and his wife back to Victoria, where he now lives.[3]

Writing career

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Hyland's two crime novels feature young indigenous woman Emily Tempest, the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and white father who has studied at Melbourne University. In the first novel, Diamond Dove, she is an amateur detective, but by the second, Gunshot Road, she is employed as an Aboriginal community police officer.[2]

Hyland was living at St Andrews, Victoria when the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 swept through the area. He wrote an account of the experiences of local police officer A/Sergeant Roger Wood, who was in charge at Kinglake on 7 February 2009, in his book Kinglake 350.

His books have been published internationally, including in Britain and the US, and translated into a variety of languages, including German, French, Swedish and Czech.

Bibliography

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Novels

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Emily Tempest series

Other novels

  • Canticle Creek (2021)[5]

Non-fiction

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  • Kinglake 350 (2011)[6]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Austlit — Adrian Hyland". Austlit. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Desert Tales" by Liz Porter, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 2010
  3. ^ "Mystery Down Under: Adrian Hyland's Outback", Scene of the Crime blog, 7 May 2010
  4. ^ a b "'Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Canticle Creek by Adrian Hyland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Kinglake 350 by Adrian Hyland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  7. ^ "2007 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  8. ^ ""Prime Minister's Literary Award>Nonfiction"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 23 October 2024.