Eva Sallis
Eva Sallis (also Eva Hornung[1]) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide.[2] She has won several awards, including The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Literary Award for her first novel Hiam.
Life[]
Eva Sallis was born in Bendigo. She has an MA in literature and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide. Sallis lived in Yemen while undertaking research for her PhD, and now lives and works in Adelaide.
Career[]
Sallis's first novel, the best-selling Hiam, won the 1997 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the 1999 Nita May Dobbie Literary Award. Her second novel, City of Sealions, was well received, and her novel-in-stories, Mahjar won the Steele Rudd Award. Her 2005 book Fire Fire, told the story of gifted children growing up in a dysfunctional, loving family in 1970s Australia. Her 2009 novel Dog Boy won the 2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction.[3][4]
Sallis is a human rights activist, helping to found the organisation Australians Against Racism.[5] In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture.[6]
Works[]
- Hiam (1998)
- Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures) (1999)
- The City of Sealions (2002)
- Mahjar (2003)
- Fire Fire (2005)
- The Marsh Birds (2006)
- Dog Boy (2009) (as by "Eva Hornung")
- The Last Garden, The Text Publishing Company, 2017, ISBN 978-1-925498-12-7 (as by "Eva Hornung")
Awards[]
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Hiam, winner 1997 |
Dobbie Literary Award | Hiam, winner 1999 |
Steele Rudd Award | Mahjar, winner 2004 |
Asher Literary Award | The Marsh Birds, winner 2005 |
The Commonwealth Writers Prize | The Marsh Birds, shortlisted 2005 |
The Age Book of the Year | The Marsh Birds, shortlisted 2005 |
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Dog Boy, winner 2010 |
Voss Literary Prize | The Last Garden, shortlisted 2018 |
References[]
- ^ Dog’s Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Meanjin, 2009.
- ^ Sallis, Eva 1964–
- ^ Dog Boy by Eva Hornung: Man versus dog as carer? Choose the canine, says John Burnside, The Guardian
- ^ "2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners". Archived from the original on 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ^ Eva Hornung on Dog Boy, Writing and Activism
- ^ "Lecture series archive". Manning Clark House. 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
External links[]
- A conversation with Eva Sallis about her latest novel Fire Fire for the Books & Writing web site.
- Eva Sallis at the Bookfinder web site
- Eva Sallis at the Library Thing seb site
- Eva Sallis and her novel Fire Fire
- 1964 births
- People from Bendigo
- Living people
- University of Adelaide alumni
- Australian human rights activists
- Women human rights activists
- Australian women novelists