Hill, Barry, 1943-

Poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and historian. Barry Hill is well known as a journalist and literary writer, but his major work has been his biography of the anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow, published in 2002 as Broken song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. Hill is also the author of A rim of blue (1978), Headlocks & other stories (1983), Raft: poems 1983-1990 (1990), The Rock: travelling to Uluru (1994), The inland sea (2001), and The enduring rip: a history of Queenscliffe (2004). Sitting in, Hill's history of the 1979 Union Carbide strike and occupation at Altona, Victoria, won the NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction in 1992. In 1994, Ghosting William Buckley (1993) was winner of the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry.