Eva Sallis

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, 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 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 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 Hornung married Roger Sallis, and her early novels were published under the name Eva Sallis.