Articles by Lia Hills
- Profile
- Lia Hills is a poet, novelist and translator. Her latest novel, The Crying Place, was released with Allen and Unwin in 2017 to critical acclaim. Lia travelled regularly to research and write The Crying Place, set partly in Pitjantjatjara country. As part of the process, Lia stayed in Aboriginal communities and began learning the Pitjantjatjara language. The Crying Place was named Book of the Month by Australian Independent Booksellers and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018. In 2019, Lia received a Creative Victoria Creators Fund grant to work on her new novel. Set in the Wimmera, it is the story of a young girl who emerges mute from the desert, and the response to her emergence in the local community and beyond. The novel explores the erasure and re-emergence of voices, both human and non-human, and the Great Australian Silence. Lia lives with her family in the hills outside Melbourne, where she works full-time as a writer, often observed by birds.
Culture, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2022: Volume Three, Theory
Listen with your ear with your heart
The first translation gig I’m ever paid for is commissioned by my employers at a language school in Lausanne. The director wants me to translate a test he’s written, to be used to determine the French or English proficiency of staff at a large multinational in Geneva. [...]