Lia Hills Lia Hills i(A120697 works by) (a.k.a. Leanne Hills)
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Female
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Poet, novelist and translator.

Born in New Zealand, Lia Hills later re-located to Melbourne. Among her community arts projects in the city was her role as co-initiator of Moving Galleries, a haiku/rooku project released on Melbourne's public transport system in 2006.

Hills published her first novel, The Beginner's Guide to Living, in 2009, the same year in which Text Publishing released her translation of French author Marie Darrieussecq's Tom est Mort, lost-in-the-bush narrative set in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. The Beginner's Guide to Living was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the Western Australian Premier's Literary Awards, and the New Zealand Children's Book Awards.

Her next novel, The Crying Place, was not released until 2017. Hills is also the author of a collection of poetry, The Possibility of Flight.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Crying Place Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 10673312 2017 single work novel

'A stunning literary debut that takes the reader into the mysteries and truths that lie at the heart of our country.

'In the rear vision, the road was golden and straight and even, its length making sense of the sky, of the vast black cloud that was set to engulf it. I pulled over and got out. Stared at it, this gleaming snake - where I'd been, where it was going. The route that Jed had once taken.

'After years of travelling, Saul is trying to settle down. But one night he receives the devastating news of the death of his oldest friend, Jed, recently returned from working in a remote Aboriginal community. Saul's discovery in Jed's belongings of a photo of a woman convinces him that she may hold the answers to Jed's fate. So he heads out on a journey into the heart of the Australian desert to find the truth, setting in motion a powerful story about the landscapes that shape us and the ghosts that lay their claim.

'The Crying Place is a haunting, luminous novel about love, country, and the varied ways in which we grieve. In its unflinching portrayal of the borderlands where worlds come together, and the past and present overlap, it speaks of the places and moments that bind us. The myths that draw us in. And, ultimately, the ways in which we find our way home.' (Publication summary)

2018 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
y separately published work icon The Beginner's Guide to Living Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2009 Z1557459 2009 single work novel young adult 'Seventeen-year-old Will is in turmoil after the sudden death of his mother. His father drifts and his older brother, Adam, stays away from home. Isolated and angry, Will begins a search for the answers he craves. He uses his mum's old camera to document the experience and scrambles to find an idea for which he can live and die. And as if things weren't complicated enough, he falls for sixteen-year-old Taryn. His final exams are looming, but how will he get through the tangle of grief and philosophy, sex and love? (Publisher's blurb)
2009 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Young Adults
2010 shortlisted Children's Book Awards (NZ) Young Adult Fiction
2009 longlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2009 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Best Young Adult Book
2009 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Writing for Young Adults
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