Patrick Holland (author)

Patrick Gordon Holland
Born 7 August 1977
Rockhampton, Australia
Occupation Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Language English, Chinese, Vietnamese
Nationality Australian

Patrick Holland is an Australian novelist and short story writer who grew up in outback Australia doing horse work for local station owners.

His novel The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge, 2010) tells the story of a band of young disenfranchised horse thieves and one's young sister. It was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the year. The novel employs variations of Ernest Hemingway's 'ice berg theory' and a prose technique based on Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli technique of musical composition and Biblical dirges.

His short story collection The Source of the Sound (Salt, 2010) won Salt Publishing's 2010 Scott Prize.

The Darkest Little Room (Transit Lounge, 2012), is a literary thriller set in Ho Chi Minh City. The novel concerns human trafficking.

Holland's writing is informed by Greek Orthodoxy, to which faith he is a convert, and his experiences working in Asia and outback Australia.[1] He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association. He has described his writing style as minimalist, and also 'ambient' with reference to Japanese literature, in particular the works of Yasunari Kawabata, John Saul and Yuki Kurita.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Belinda Sanders". ABC Radio Southern Queensland. 5 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Perilous Adventures 10:03

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