Eva Sallis (also Eva Hornung[1]) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist. She has won several awards, including The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Literary Award for her first novel Hiam.
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.
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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.[2][3] She is a human rights activist, helping to found the organisation Australians Against Racism.[4]
- Hiam (1998)
- The City of Sealions (2002)
- Mahjar (2003)
- Fire Fire (2005)
- The Marsh Birds (2006)
- Dogboy (2009)
- Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures) (1999)
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Sallis, Eva |
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Australian novelist |
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1964 |
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Bendigo |
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