Patrick Holland grew up in outback Queensland. He has worked as a horseman in Maranoa district and ringer in the top end. He has travelled widely throughout Asia and studied language and literature at Qingdao University and Beijing Foreign Studies University on PRC scholarship, as well as Ho Chi Minh Social Sciences University in Vietnam.
His second novel The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year. His first novel The Long Road of the Junkmailer (UQP) won the Queensland Premier’s Award for the Best Emerging Author and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia and Pacific Region. His collection of essays, Riding the Trains in Japan: Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East was published by Transit Lounge in late 2011 and a second edition will be released In August. His third novel, The Darkest Little Room will be released in September.
Patrick Holland appears in Wish You Weren’t Here?
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