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'Alexis Wright is the only person to have won both prizes named in honour of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. She won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for her magnificent novel Carpentaria, and the Stella Prize in 2018 for her extraordinary biography of Bruce ‘Tracker’ Tilmouth, Tracker.' (Introduction)
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Unit Suitable ForAC: Senior Secondary English (Unit 2)
Duration 9 activities and associated synthesising tasks over as many lessons as will allow the work to be completed. A range of options for the Culminating rich assessment task is also included.
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Themes
Aboriginal deaths in custody, connection to place, displacement, dispossession of land and culture, dreams, family, identity, Indigenous, justice, resilience, survival
General Capabilities
Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding, Intercultural understanding, Literacy, Personal and social
Cross-curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Sustainability
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- Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the first person to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize.
- Alexis’ fiction includes:
- Tracker (2017), awarded the Stella Prize
- The Swan Book (2013)
- Carpentaria (2006), awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award
- Plains of Promise (1997).
- Wright is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Western Sydney University. She has published the non-fiction works Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council, and Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory. She is a member of the Australian Research Council research project ‘Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature’, where she is focusing on forms of Aboriginal oral storytelling.
