Barry Hill
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| Born | 1943 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1966- |
| Notable awards | 1990 Anne Elder Award; 1991 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award - Non-Fiction; 1994 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award - Poetry; 2004 National Biography Award |
Barry Hill (born 1943) is an Australian historian, writer, and academic.[1]
He has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and libretti. He is known for his biography of anthropologist Ted Strehlow, called Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession, published in 2002.
Hill was born in Melbourne.[2]
He studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining his Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Education (BEd) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and from there went to London, where he gained his Master of Arts (MA) degree from the University of London.[1]
Hill has worked in both Melbourne and London. In London he worked for the Times Literary Supplement.[1]
In 1975 Hill became a full-time writer. As of 2008[update] he was poetry editor of The Australian newspaper.[2]
Hill was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Melbourne Athenaeum on 2 February 1978.[3]
Hill has produced performance works for radio, including Desert Canticles, that premiered on ABC Radio on 5 February 2001.[4][5] Hill is quoted as saying the piece was inspired by the following:
"Desert Canticles arises out of a marriage, a decade of travelling, and some years writing the literary biography of T.G.H. Strehlow out of Central Australia. I was writing my own poems out of love and the landscape, while trying to fathom Strehlow's great achievement in Songs of Central Australia. So the notion of translation as a metaphor for relationship – with place, with others, and with songs of different cultures (Hebraic, Buddhist, and Aboriginal) became a natural one upon which to thread a radio work."[4]
(As of 2006) Hill is married to Rose Bygrave, a member of the band Goanna.[15]
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