Eva Hornung

Eva Katerina Hornung, formerly known as Eva Sallis, is an Australian novelist and poet. She has won several awards, including The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Dobbie Literary Award for her first novel Hiam (1997), and the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction for Dog Boy. She was writer-in-residence in 2008, and then a research fellow at the University of Adelaide. She is also co-founder of Australians Against Racism (AAR).

Early life and education

Eva Katerina Hornung was born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1964. She has an MA in literature, and completed a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide in 1996. Hornung lived in Yemen while undertaking research for her PhD. ==Career==

Career

Writing Hornung's first novel, Hiam, won the 1997 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Other works include the novels The City of Sealions and Fire Fire, as well as a book of literary criticism on the Arabian Nights, titled Sheherazade through the Looking Glass: the Metamorphosis of the 1001 Nights. == Other activities ==

Other activities

Hornung is a human rights activist, and co-founded the organisation Australians Against Racism In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture at Manning Clark House in Canberra. == Personal life ==

Personal life

Hornung married Roger Sallis, and her early novels were published under the name Eva Sallis. She has a son. After her marriage of 26 years ended sometime before 2009, she reverted to her maiden name, Hornung. ==Works==

Works

• Hiam (1998; as Eva Sallis) • ''Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)'' (1999; as Eva Sallis) • The City of Sealions (2002; as Eva Sallis) • Mahjar (2003; as Eva Sallis) • Fire Fire (2005; as Eva Sallis) • The Marsh Birds (2006; as Eva Sallis) • Dog Boy (2009) (as Eva Hornung) • (as Eva Hornung) • The Minstrels (2026; as Eva Hornung) ==Awards==

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