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Patrick Holland Patrick Holland i(A71623 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Holland grew up in outback Queensland. He has studied Chinese language at the University of Queensland and the University of Qingdao, China. He was awarded a Chinese government scholarship to study at Beijing Language and Culture University.

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y separately published work icon One Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2016 9173047 2016 single work novel historical fiction

'Though Ned Kelly popularly gets the title, Australia’s last bushrangers were Patrick and James Kenniff, horse and cattle thieves whose operations were at their height at the turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland – the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. A policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear. Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to pursue the gang, especially, Jim Kenniff, who becomes for him an emblem of the violence that resides in the heart of the country.

'In the literary tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Peter Carey, One is a novel of lyrical beauty that traverses the intersections between violence and love. It is a love story that reveals the sometimes slippery nature of the truth. What right does a man have to impose his will on the world? Can the written law can ever answer the law of the heart?' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
y separately published work icon Navigatio Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2014 7939009 2014 single work novel fantasy

'Navigatio tells the story of Saint Brendan of Clonfert, a sixth century monk and adventurer, and his legendary quest for the Isle of the Blessed via a gauntlet of monsters, devils, angels, prophets and beautiful maidens. Brendan's battles with the sea and the cosmos bear out what William Faulkner once called ‘the human heart in conflict with itself’. This haunting parable of darkness and light, of temptation and belief, of voice and silence, is told with the utmost economy of words, making it a small masterpiece of compassionate perception.' (Publication summary)

2015 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
y separately published work icon Riding the Trains in Japan : Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2011 Z1813965 2011 single work prose travel 'Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey becomes a thread in book that journeys on rivers in Saigon, mountains in the Chinese Himalaya, lost cities of the Silk Road, mist-swathed cemeteries in Japan and the flat plains of Australia, and subtly questions the nature of travel and identity through reflections on place, mortality and the changing Asian landscape.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award
2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
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