Dog Boy (novel)

Dog Boy

First edition
Author	Eva Hornung
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Text Publishing, Australia
Publication date	2009
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages	293
ISBN	9781921520426
Preceded by	The Marsh Birds

Dog Boy (2009) is a novel by Australian author Eva Sallis, writing under the pseudonym Eva Hornung. It won the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction and was inspired by the story of feral child Ivan Mishukov.^[1][2]

Romochka is a feral child, raised by dogs and found on the streets of Moscow in the summer of 1998. He appears to be six years old and has been with the pack for two years. This novel examines his life on the streets and the changes he undergoes as he transforms from "dog" to "boy".

This book is "For Philip Waldron".

• The Guardian^[3]
• The Telegraph^[4]

• 2009 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
• 2010 shortlisted Australian Literature Society Awards — ALS Gold Medal
• 2010 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
• 2010 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction

• German: Dog Boy. Translation by Thomas Gunkel. Suhrkamp Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-518-46288-1.
• Spanish: El Niño Perro. Editorial Salamandra 2010. ISBN 9788498383072.