About
Patrick Holland is a novelist, short story writer and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of nine books including The Mary Smokes Boys (2010), currently being made into a feature film by Jarod Dean, and The Darkest Little Room (2014), published in 2020 as La Donna del Club 49: Un noir in Vietnam by O Barro O Edizioni. His work has been recognised by such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Dublin Literary Award, the International Scott Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and has been published, performed and broadcast in Australia, the USA, the UK and Ireland, Italy, Hong Kong, China and Japan. His most recent novel, Oblivion, was published by Transit Lounge Publishing in July 2024 and was the ANZ LitLovers Best Book of 2024.