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.^[4][5][6]

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.^[7][8]

Sallis is a human rights activist, helping to found the organisation Australians Against Racism.^[9] In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture.^[10]

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

1. "Sallis, Eva, 1964-" at Library of Congress Linked Data Service.
2. Dog’s Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Meanjin, 2009.
3. "Sallis, Eva 1964– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
4. "Adelaidean -- Acclaimed novelist is writer-in-residence". www.adelaide.edu.au. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
5. On, Thuy (31 March 2003). "Thuy On reviews 'Mahjar' by Eva Sallis". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
6. "A woman of many cultures". The Age. 15 February 2003. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
7. Dog Boy by Eva Hornung: Man versus dog as carer? Choose the canine, says John Burnside, The Guardian
8. "2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners". Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
9. Eva Hornung on Dog Boy, Writing and Activism
10. "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