Eva SallisEva 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. LifeEva 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] CareerSallis'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
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