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Sixty seconds with Adrian Hyland...
Adrian Hyland has spent time as a community worker in the Australian outback working with the Aboriginal community. DIAMOND DOVE (MOONLIGHT DOWNS in the US) is his debut novel.
RTE: Describe yourself in a sentence?
Hyland: Nomadic, restless, messy, drawn to deserts, synaesthetic. Grammar a bit susso – was that a sentence?
RTE: What's the one record you'd take to a desert island?
Hyland: Alyawarra Music, from Central Australia – might give a clue or two about surviving in a desert. Can I smuggle in a bit Bob Dylan? Nick Cave?
RTE: What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Hyland: Pilot. Maybe I got to be the navigator.
RTE: Who's your oldest friend?
Hyland: Kristin, my girl.
RTE: If I ruled the world...
Hyland: I’d try to slow things down, give us time to look around, get the joke, hear the music, learn from indigenous people.
RTE: Which book do you wish you'd written?
Hyland: Oi yoi yoi – where do I begin? I enjoy things from all over the spectrum – from Coleridge to Chandler, and the Hill brothers, Reginald and Geoffrey. If it has to be one book, let’s go for The Book of Songs – if for no other reason than that I would have had to master Chinese to do so.
RTE: What makes you angry?
Hyland: Isms and ologies – although scientology’s good for a laugh - leaky iPods on public transport, yapping dogs and people.
RTE: Name your five dream dinner party guests.
Hyland: Picasso and Einstein – so I could find out what they had in common, something that’s been puzzling me of late. An Aboriginal elder, who could teach them a thing or two about art and science. Simone Weil, as an ethical touchstone – and a sweetie. And we’d have Shakespeare – as the waiter: he could eavesdrop, then sneak out to the kitchen and write it all down on a napkin, which is how I imagine he did his thang.
RTE: Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with?
Hyland: Andy Dalziel – not because of the personality but because of the weight. Mind you the personality might make our descent the most fascinating few seconds of my life. Actually, on further thought, Fat Andy might be an okay bloke to be stuck in a lift with: he’d think of something: probably fart for long enough to keep us hovering until the firemen arrived.
RTE: What inspired you to start writing?
Hyland: Love of language: the colour of vowels, the clash of consonants, the interplay of ideas and characters, the unravelling of a good story.
RTE: Where would you most like to live?
Hyland: Tanami Desert, in the Outback – in winter, thanks.
RTE: Sum up your latest book in no more than 12 words.
Hyland: Turbo-charged Mma Ramotswe meets the Dreamtime.
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