Eva Sallis (also Eva HornungDog’s Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung
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'', 2009.) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide. She has won several awards, including

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and the Nita May Dobbie Literary Award for her

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''Hiam''.

Life

Eva Sallis was born in

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. She has an MA in

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and a

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from the

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. Sallis lived in

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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

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

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. Her 2005 book ''Fire Fire'', told the story of gifted children growing up in a dysfunctional, loving family in 1970s Australia. Her 2009 novel ''

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'' won the 2010 Australian

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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) *''

'' (2009) (as by "Eva Hornung") * (as by "Eva Hornung")

Awards

References

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
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