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Mudrooroo (365 works by all writing names) (a.k.a. Mudrooroo, Colin Johnson; Nyoongah, Colin Johnson; Johnson, Colin; Narogin, Mudrooroo; Nyoongah, Mudrooroo) Also writes as: Johnson, Colin (113 works) Born: 21 Aug 1938 Narrogin, Western Australia Gender: Male Archives: Search for literary archives for Mudrooroo

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Mudrooroo was born at East Cubelling (near Narrogin) in Western Australia. At the age of nine he was placed in a Catholic orphanage, where he lived until he was sixteen. He spent a year in Fremantle Prison, then lived for a time in the home of Mary Durack (q.v.). She was later to write the foreword to his novel, Wild Cat Falling, published in 1965 and accclaimed as the first novel by an Indigenous Australian. After moving to Melbourne in 1958, he travelled in Thailand, Malaysia and India. He spe....

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