Eva Katerina Hornung (born 1964), 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).
Eva Katerina Hornung was born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1964. [1] [2]
She has an MA in literature, and completed a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide in 1996. [3] Hornung lived in Yemen while undertaking research for her PhD. [4] [5] [6]
Hornung's first novel, Hiam, won the 1997 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [2] and the 1999 Dobbie Literary Award. [4] Her second novel was City of Sealions. [2] Her 2003 novel-in-stories, Mahjar won the 2004 Steele Rudd Award. [4] Her 2005 novel Fire Fire told the story of gifted children growing up in a dysfunctional, loving family in 1970s Australia.[ citation needed ]The Marsh Birds won several awards. [2] Hornung learnt Arabic and travelled to the Middle East for research. All of these novels were published under the name Eva Sallis. [2]
For her 2009 novel Dog Boy , Hornung learnt Russian for nine months in order to undertake research for it, which took four years, including two and a half weeks in Moscow. [2] It won the 2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. [7] [8] [9]
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. [4]
Hornung was the University of Adelaide's first Writer-in-Residence in 2008, in Adelaide, South Australia. After completing the residency in June 2008, she worked in a teaching and mentoring position for Creative Writing students at the university. She also presented a graduate seminar and ran a workshop in conjunction with the SA Writers' Centre called "Three Tasks for the Emerging Writer". [3]
As of 2010, she was a research fellow and was supervising students in the Creative Writing program. [9] [10]
Hornung is a human rights activist, and co-founded the organisation Australians Against Racism [11] [3] in 2001 along with designer Mariana Hardwick. [12]
In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture at Manning Clark House in Canberra. [13]
Hornung married Roger Sallis, and her early novels were published under the name Eva Sallis. [1] She has a son. After her marriage of 26 years ended sometime before 2009, she reverted to her maiden name, Hornung. [2]
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Hiam, winner 1997 |
| Dobbie Literary Award | Hiam, winner 1999 |
| Steele Rudd Award | Mahjar, winner 2004 |
| Asher Literary Award | The Marsh Birds, winner 2005 |
| The Commonwealth Writers Prize | The Marsh Birds, shortlisted 2005 |
| The Age Book of the Year | The Marsh Birds, shortlisted 2005 |
| The Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Dog Boy, winner 2010 |
| Voss Literary Prize | The Last Garden, shortlisted 2018 |
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