Eva Sallis
# Eva Sallis

Eva Sallis (also Eva Hornung) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide. 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.

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

## 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 |
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| 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 |
