Adrian Hyland

Adrian Hyland
Born Adrian Hyland
(1954-08-23) August 23, 1954
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Language English
Nationality Australia
Genre crime fiction
Notable work Diamond Dove
Notable awards Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel

Adrian Hyland, born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 23 August 1954 is an award-winning Australian writer of non-fiction and crime fiction.

Life

Hyland lived for many years in outback communities of Australia after graduating from Melbourne University in literature, classics and Chinese language.[1] Family circumstances brought he and his wife back to Victoria, where he now lives.[2]

Writing career

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.[1]

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 Sergeant Roger Wood, who was in charge at Kinglake on February 7, 2009, in his book Kinglake 350.

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

Awards

References

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