Eva Sallis
Eva Katerina Sallis[1] (also Eva Hornung[2]) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide.[3] 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.[4][5]
Sallis is a human rights activist, helping to found the organisation Australians Against Racism.[6] In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture.[7]
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
- ^ "Sallis, Eva, 1964-" at Library of Congress Linked Data Service.
- ^ Dog’s Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Meanjin, 2009.
- ^ "Sallis, Eva 1964– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ 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 11 November 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- ^ Eva Hornung on Dog Boy, Writing and Activism
- ^ "Lecture series archive". Manning Clark House. 28 October 2018. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
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