'In Tracker (winner of the 2018 Stella Prize), hundreds of stories are told to build up the portrait of an immensely complex and gifted man.' (Introduction)

'"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"

'This is the opening line of Alexis Wright's book Tracker, which has won the 2018 Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.' (Introduction)

'Alexis Wright is a master storyteller. The power of her writing derives not only from her capacity to conjure words into spellbinding tales but from the troubled thinking she brings to bear on narrative forms themselves. Wright has an incisive grasp of storytelling as a primary vehicle of political power and its potential transformation. Who has the right to tell a story? This question, so simple on the face of it, simultaneously invokes the ethical basis of Aboriginal society as well as the settler-colonial hubris that legitimises dispossession and locates authority elsewhere.' (Introduction)

'Writing the story of her friend Tracker Tilmouth was not only a labour of love for Waanyi woman Alexis Wright, she also knew she had to honour Aboriginal ways of storytelling.' (Introduction)

'Alexis Wright’s book Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth has won the 2018 Stella Prize. Tracker is, in Wright’s words, an attempt to tell an “impossible story”, using the voices of many people to reflect on the life of Tilmouth, a central and visionary figure in Aboriginal politics.' (Introduction)