Lia Hills Lia Hills i(A120697 works by) (a.k.a. Leanne Hills)
Born: Established:
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon The Desert Knows Her Name Lia Hills , Mulgrave : Affirm Press , 2024 27816063 2024 single work novel

'Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why.

'On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr.

'She finds sanctuary with Beth, a regenerative farmer and collector of seeds, devoted to bringing her family's farm back to life. The arrival of the mysterious 'desert girl' unsettles the community and old tensions erupt. The longer the girl stays silent, the more volatile the town becomes. Who is she and what does her presence mean?

'The Desert Knows Her Name is an exquisite novel that speaks to a deep longing for connection with the land, and the silences that persist in contemporary Australia.' (Publication summary)

1 The Backyard Projec T: Notes from Stolen Land Lia Hills , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Island Online - 2022 2022;
1 3 y separately published work icon The Crying Place Lia Hills , 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)

1 Effective Self-Translation : How Not to Completely Lose Yourself in Another's Language Lia Hills , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Creative Constraints : Translation and Authorship 2012; (p. 77-84)
1 y separately published work icon Transformation : A Collection of Art and Poetry in and around Melbourne Lia Hills (editor), Melbourne : Moving Galleries , 2009 Z1856936 2009 anthology poetry art work
1 Lia Hills Lia Hills , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 53 no. 2 2009; (p. 10)
1 Gut Mystics i "at", Lia Hills , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Divan , no. 7 2009;
1 Acid i "your son in a jar", Lia Hills , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Divan , no. 7 2009;
1 The (Secret) Intellectual Life of Adolescents Lia Hills , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 17 no. 2 2009; (p. 4-5)
Hills uses experiences from her own life to explain the premise behind her novel, that teenagers are interested in all 'ideas, big and small' in their own search for meaning.
2 7 y separately published work icon Tom est Mort Marie Darrieussecq , ( trans. Lia Hills with title Tom Is Dead ) Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2009 Z1611377 2007 single work novel

'Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's story, the story of his death.

'She writes about the first hours, the first days, and then about the hours and the days before. She strives to describe it all as precisely as possible. It's the details that will lead her and the reader to the truth.' (From Text Publishing's website.)

3 14 y separately published work icon The Beginner's Guide to Living Lia Hills , 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)
1 Cattle i "wind like recall", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 63-64)
1 Birdman i "Your hands direct traffic", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 61-62)
1 Snatched i "who saw him", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 59)
1 The Only One i "he", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 58)
1 Tarn Shelf, Tasmania i "grasstips hold summer", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 57)
1 The Didactic Finch i "He chose the Rapturous hour-", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 56)
1 Tenebrae i "[15] candles", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 55)
1 Sky Bruises i "I found a book with a red cover it explained", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 52-54)
1 Lysistrata's Surfboard i "Bondi winter's noon", Lia Hills , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Possibility of Flight 2008; (p. 50-51)
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