Biography
Matt Haig is a English writer, who, like Karl Friedrich Jerome, von Münhgausen, was able to pull himself down by the hair, but not from the swamp, but from the puchin of madness. Like the compatriot James Bowen, he managed the dark fragments of biography to turn into books, helping people to gain confidence. In addition to works in the genre of autobiographical psychology, heyig bibliography has children's books and novels addressed to adults.Childhood and youth
The writer was born in the summer of 1975 in Sheffield. Matt's childhood has passed in Newark. The friends of the young man were books and a classmate, who separated the passion for young heyga works by Stephen King.
Higher education The writer received at the University of Halla and the University of Lida. Before becoming a professional writer, Matt managed to work at the Spanish nightclub and create a private company in Internet marketing. The first books of Heyig were devoted to brand promotion tactics.
From 24 to 32 years old, a man suffered from depressions and panic attacks. At the same time, he lived on a chic villa on Ibiza Island.
The experience of fighting the ailment who led to Suicide the great-grandmother of the writer and broke the life of the colleague David Foster Wallace, Matt described in the book "Fall in love. How to learn to live again when you are almost destroyed by depression. " The work is also known as "the reasons to stay alive." The development of the topic received in the book of Hayega "Planet of Nerveny", published with the subtitle "How to live in the world of prosperous panic".
Personal life
Matt is married to Andrea Stympl, who was with him still during the fight against depression. Spouses have two children, the son of Lucas and the daughter of Pearl, who, like his wife, the writer invariably devotes works.Heyigs live in the English city of Brighton, located in East Sussex County. Father chose home learning for children and glad that British legislation allows. The writer prefers not to put a personal life at the bottom, so in the "instagram" heygan prevailing quotes from its works and "scans" from the account in Twitter, and not a photo of family members.
Matt is an atheist and music lover of Country. Maintain health men help yoga classes.
Books
In the book "Feel into Life", Heig compares the beginning of a panic attack with flickering in the head, "as if the butterfly flies, hitting a trap." Despite the gloomy theme, the work is decorated with humor and the dialogues of Matt today's with Matt, discouraged by the first panic attack. The author characterizes the book as a story about the experience of a person who managed to move away from the edge of the abyss.
The first artworks of Heyga are peculiar fanfishes of Shakespeare's plays. In the "Last Family in England", the events of the first act of the tragedy "Heinrich IV" are played out by not people, but dogs. In the "Club of the Dead Fathers", the 11-year-old Philip suffers from the hasty wedding of the widowed mother with his father's brother. The parent ghost tells the boy that Uncle - the killer. A compounded teen turns into avenger.
Next, from under the feather Heyga, works came out with more original plots. Roman "Family Radley" tells about the spouses Peter and Helen and their teenage children. Siblings suddenly learn that their parents are vampires.
In the center of the novel "It is difficult to be a man" - Andrew Martin, an eccentric professor of mathematics, which disappeared after the decision of the most difficult task in the history of mankind. Like the hero of another novel Hheyga "How to Stop Time", he communicates with the celebrities of the past. Among the interlocutors of Professor - Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
The Christmas series, addressed to young readers, reveals the "genuine history" of Santa Claus. To save the Father, Finnish boy Nicholas goes to the Winter Forest, where the elves and trolls are waiting for him.
Matt Hayig now
In December 2019, on the official website, Heig informed the fans that the director Gil Keanna is engaged in the screening of the work of the "Boy for Christmas". The film premiere was scheduled for 2020.Matt also said that Gord and happy to be the official author of the World Book Day and for this event wrote a continuation of the story "Evi and Animals" - the work of Evi in the jungle. The gift of a 11-year-old heroine to talk with birds and animals is tested while traveling girls in the tropical forests of Brazil.
In March 2020, the writer supported the 13-year-old Englishman Callum Manning, who was bulling from classmates. Grass, which told in the "Twitter" the older sister of the schoolchild, began after the teenager in the "Instagram" began to post reviews for read books. Odnoklassniki called Callum "Psychic" and left offensive comments on his page.
Matt, his British colleague according to Peru - the author of the books of "Cross-Noliki" books Malories Blackman, the young actress Hanna James, who flashed in the TV series "Super High", and other celebrities subscribed to the "Instagram" account of the boy and called for fans to follow their example. For a couple of days, the number of Manning Folloviers has grown from several tens of people to one and a half hundred thousand. Thanks to the promotion, Callum is not expensive, as the character of the book Hayega "Being a Côte" 12-year-old Barney Yves, and the star of the Internet.
Bibliography
Non-demalistic literature
- 2002 - "Why you do not have an electronic strategy"
- 2003 - "Brand Insolvency"
- 2011 - "Brand Success"
- 2015 - "Feel into life. How to learn to live again when you are almost destroyed by depression "
- 2018 - "Planet Nervous"
Fiction
- 2004 - "Last Family in England"
- 2006 - "Club of the Dead Fathers"
- 2010 - "Family of Radley"
- 2013 - "hard to be man" ("People and I")
- 2013 - "Be a cat"
- 2017 - "How to Stop Time"
Series "Samiyel Blink"
- 2007 - "Tenniste Forest"
- 2009 - "Running Troll"
Christmas series
- 2015 - "Boy for Christmas"
- 2016 - "The girl who saved Christmas"
- 2017 - "Father of Christmas and I"
- 2018 - "Pixy Truth"
- 2019 - "Pixie Truth goes to school"
EVI series
- 2019 - "Evi and Animals"
- 2020 - "Evi in the jungle"