
Lia Hills
ABOUT
Lia Hills
Lia Hills is an award-winning poet, novelist and translator, whose work has been published and translated around the world. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Miles Franklin and the NZ Book Awards. Her latest novel, The Desert Knows Her Name, was written in consultation with the Barengi Gadgin Land Council and other Wimmera communities. Lia narrated the first draft using speech-recognition software during two weeks spent in an old farmhouse on the edge of Wyperfeld National Park. Other works include The Crying Place, the possibility of flight, her translation of Marie Darrieussecq’s internationally-acclaimed novel Tom is Dead, and Balit Bagurrk: Strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women of the Yarra Ranges, of which Lia was co-editor. She lives and works on Wurundjeri Country.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.