# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-j-hyland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:27:50.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-j-hyland"
name: "M. J. Hyland"
slug: "m-j-hyland"
description: "Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This Is How (2009). Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize."
tagline: "English novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.96
  momentum:             17.95833333333333
  historical:           5.677862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mj_hyland"
    handle:    "mj_hyland"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mjhyland.com"
sources:
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    title: "M. J. Hyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إم. جيه. هايلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ام. جيه. هايلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.J._Hyland"
    title: "M.J. Hyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Hyland"
    title: "M. J. Hyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Hyland"
    title: "M. J. Hyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4731"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump