Language English Name Adrian Hyland | Genre crime fiction Nationality Australia Role Writer | |
 | ||
Notable awards Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel Books Diamond Dove, Moonlight Downs, Kinglake‑350, Gunshot Road, Gunshot Road: An Emily Te | ||
Adrian Hyland (born 23 August 1954 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an award-winning Australian writer of non-fiction and crime fiction.
Contents
Life
Hyland lived for many years in outback communities of Australia after graduating from Melbourne University in literature, classics and Chinese language. Family circumstances brought he and his wife back to Victoria, where he now lives.
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.
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 7 February 2009, in his book Kinglake 350.