Eva Hornung


Eva Katerina Sallis 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

Hornung was born in Bendigo. She has an MA in literature and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide. Hornung lived in Yemen while undertaking research for her PhD, and now lives and works in Adelaide.

Career

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

Works