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The authors included here form a day part of the BlackWords database. BlackWords records information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, their publications, and the literary cultures and traditions that formed and influenced them.
The authors included in this exhibition are prolific and influential storytellers in Australia. They have been included for one or more of the following criteria:
- they have won awards
- they have translations
- they have multiple publications, including international
- they are considered influential in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writing communities in Australia.
Early influential authors, David Unaipon, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and .... are included in the 'Classic Australian Authors' tile available from the left hand menu.
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Samantha Faulkner
Poet and Writer-
Samantha Faulkner is from the Badu and Moa Islands of the Torres Strait, and the Yadhaigana and Wuthuthi/Wuthati peoples of Cape York Peninsula. She is a writer and poet, and Director of the Indigenous Health Unit, NHMRC.
Samantha's most recent works include autobiographical story 'Ghost Story', in Growing up Indigenous in Australia (2018), and poetry and prose found in Too Deadly : Our Voice Our Way Our Business (2017).
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1799126857434203755.jpgToo Deadly : Our Voice Our Way Our Business 2017 anthology poetry short story autobiography prose
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Eddie Mabo
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Eddie Mabo (1936 - 1992) is the son of Robert Zezou Sambo and Annie Mabo of the Piadaram clan. After Eddie's mother died in childbirth, he was adopted under customary law by his uncle Benny Mabo and aunt Maiga. In the 1950's Eddie worked on various trochus fishing luggers out of Mer. At the age of seventeen he was exiled from Mer by the Island Council. Eddie moved to the mainland and worked at various labouring jobs and at the age of twenty three he married Bonnie Nehow and they had 10 children.
In 1960 Eddie became a union representative on the rail construction project in Mt Isa. From 1962 Eddie was secretary of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League and after the referendum in 1967 he helped organise a seminar in Townsville called 'We the Australians: What is to Follow the Referendum'. Dissolusioned by the League he resigned and became President of the all-black Council for the Rights of Indigenous People, which established a legal aid service, a medical service, and the Black community school.
Eddie Mabo had become a significant figure in Australian history for his role in campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. For more than a decade, Mabo fought for legal recognition regarding the 'continued ownership of land by local indigenous Australians'. Mabo's fight for Native Title led to the landmark 'Mabo decision' by the High Court of Australia in 1992.
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LoosEdwardKoikiMabo_FI@h.png2867198793418289195.jpegEdward Koiki Mabo : His Life and Struggle for Land Rights Eddie Mabo , 1996 single work biography
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Terri Janke
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Terri Janke is a Wuthathi and Meriam woman and an internationally recognised authority on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), known for innovating pathways between the law and the cultural rights of Indigenous peoples and communities. As the owner and Solicitor Director of Terri Janke and Company, a Sydney based law firm, she is dedicated to empowering Indigenous peoples to assert their ICIP rights and prosper in their business and creative endeavours.
Terri is an influential advocate for positive collaborations and engagement, having written leading ICIP protocols for various sectors including the arts, museums, archives, film and business.
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Tony Birch
Writer and Activist-
Tony Birch is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. Tony studied as a mature-age student at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a Masters degree in Creative Writing, and, a PhD in History, which won the university's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in 2013.
Birch has been publishing short stories and poetry regularly since the 1980s, although his first collection, Shadow Boxing, only appeared in 2006. Since this, he has published four more collections of short stories and poetry (Father's Day [2009], The Promise [2014], Broken Teeth [2016], and Common People [2017] and two novels (Blood [2011] and Ghost River [2015]).
Among his awards are the Scanlon Prize and the Prize for Indigenous Writing (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards). He has also been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (NSW Premier's Literary Awards), the Steele Rudd Award (with both the original Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the later Queensland Literary Awards), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
In 2015, he joined Victoria University as the first recipient of its Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship. His role sits within the Moondani Balluk Academic Unit and is linked to the University’s creative arts and writing programs. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Melbourne for many years.
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6089587219177889868.jpg3658238363064290661.jpg8895328740765783143.jpgThe White Girl Tony Birch , 2019 single work novel
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Recovering a Narrative of Place - Stories in the Time of Climate Change Tony Birch , 2018 single work essay
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1927562370889224592.jpeg5129805325987914087.jpgCommon People Tony Birch , 2017 selected work short story
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Jimmy Chi
Musician and Playwright-
Jimmy Chi was born in Broome in 1948 to a Bardi Aboriginal mother with Scottish heritage and a Broome born father whose parents were Chinese and Japanese, Jimmy Chi embodies his hometown's cultural diversity. Chi is a musician who later became the inspirational heart and creative drive behind the acclaimed stage musical Bran Nue Dae. A hit at the 1990 Festival of Perth, the musical eventually toured Australia winning numerous awards (including the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award). Bran Nue Dae, which celebrates family, forgiveness and reconciliation, has not only become one of Australia's most successful musicals but also brought acclaim for many Aboriginal artists including Ernie Dingo, Josie Ningali Lawford and Leah Purcell, as well as helping to play an instrumental role in the formation of the Black Swan Theatre. Its success led Chi to creating a second musical Corrugation Road, which similarly toured Australia and broke box office records. With Corrugation Road Chi has sought to break down the ignorance surrounding mental health, abuse, sexuality and religion through the use of humour and optimism.
Jimmy Chi's dedication to Australian artistic endeavour and justice for Indigenous people has seen him recognised a number of prestigious awards.
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bnd_F[hash]$!.jpg4935045122673436784.jpgBran Nue Dae : A Musical Journey Jimmy Chi , 1990 single work musical theatre
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Lionel Fogarty
Poet-
Lionel Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka country at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve near Murgon, Queensland. His traditional background is the Yoogum and Kudjela tribes and he has relations from the Goomba tribe.
Lionel Fogarty began writing poetry out of a commitment to the Aboriginal cause, a belief that land rights is the basis of Aboriginal people's hope for a future not based on racism and oppression, and as a way of expressing his Murri beliefs and continuing to pass on his own knowledge and experience. His first work Kargun (1980) was published when he was twenty-two and further volumes of verse have continued to be published. With the approval of his elders he has published a children's book Booyooburra (1993), a traditional Wakka Wakka story.
His work New and Selected poems: Munaldjali, Mutuerjararera was nominated for the NBC Banjo Awards Poetry Prize in 1996. He has subsequently been shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 2016, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Indigenous writing in 2014. His 2012 work Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the Land won The Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2015.
Fogarty has over 640 works indexed in AustLit.
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3801693953883523260.jpgEelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) Lionel Fogarty , 2014 selected work poetry poetry
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7440317652982426093.jpg2845102502309088669.jpgMogwie-Idan : Stories of the Land Lionel Fogarty , 2012 selected work poetry
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380687231681529718.jpgNew and Selected Poems : Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera Lionel Fogarty , 1995 selected work poetry
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Anita Heiss
Writer, Academic, Activist-
Anita Heiss is a proud Wiradjuri woman and a prolific writer of fiction (including children's literature), poetry and non-fiction. She was recently appointment Professor of Communication at The University of Queensland, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit.
She has a PhD in Communication and Media which resulted in a history of Indigenous publishing titled Dhuuluu-Yala : To Talk Straight. Other published works include the historical novel Who Am I? : The Diary of Mary Talence : Sydney, 1937, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, which she co-edited with Peter Minter.
In 2007 Anita released three titles: the novel Not Meeting Mr Right, the poetry collection I'm Not Racist, But... : A Collection of Social Observations, and the children's novel, Yirra and Her Deadly Dog, Demon. These were followed by Avoiding Mr Right and Manhattan Dreaming in 2008 and 2011 respectively. In 2011, Anita released Paris Dreaming and Demon Guards the School Yard, which was written with the students of La Perouse Public School in Sydney for the award-winning Yarning Strong series. Her novel Tiddas is set in Brisbane and was published in 2014. It was followed by Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms in 2016. Anita also edited the anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, which was released in 2018 by Black Inc.
Anita has worked closely with AustLit to produce original full text material for AustLit including In Conversation with BlackWords and The BlackWords Essays.
Anita has over 220 works recorded in AustLit, and has won more than 25 awards.
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7958153513849847012.pngOur Race for Reconciliation Anita Heiss , 2017 single work children's fiction
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Marcia Langton
Writer and Academic-
Marcia Langton is a respected authority on social issues in Aboriginal affairs and Associate Provost of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has published on Indigenous issues such as gender and identity, land rights, resource management and substance abuse. She has worked internationally on Indigenous rights, conservation and environmental polices. Langton also critiques art and films and has played leading roles in films including Jardiwampa: A Warlpiri Fire, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy and Blood Brothers.
Langton's Order of Australia was awarded in 1993 ('for services as an anthropologist and advocate of Aboriginal issues'). In 2001, she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She co-won the inaugural Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year, in 2002 (with Larissa Behrendt). In 2012, she became a patron of the Indigenous Reading Project. Since its inception in 2016, she has served on the judging panel for the Horne Prize in essay writing. Other organisations with which she has served include the Centre for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council, and the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. She is also a fellow of both Trinity College, University of Melbourne (from 2012) and Emmanuel College, University of Queensland (since 2016).
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4476515201635553997.jpg8108661865821974310.jpg6807031168180212448.jpgWelcome to Country : A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia Marcia Langton , Nina Fitzgerald , Amba-Rose Atkinson , 2018 single work prose
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Ruby Langford Ginibi
Writer and Poet-
Ruby Langford Ginibi was born at Box Ridge Mission, Coraki, on the north coast of New South Wales in 1934. A proud Bundjalung woman, Dr Langford Ginibi grew up in Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino. When she turned fifteen, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist. Married at an early age, she had nine children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. For many years, she lived and camped in the bush around Coonabarabran, working at fencing, lopping and ring-barking trees and pegging kangaroo skins. At other times, she lived in Sydney and was employed in clothing factories.
Ginibi made her literary debut at fifty-four, when her first book Don't Take Your Love To Town was released in 1988, Australia's Bicentennial Year. This book, which revealed the struggles and trials faced by Aboriginal women, won her a Human Rights Award.
Ginibi received an inaugural History Fellowship from the Ministry of Arts in 1990, an inaugural Honorary Fellowship from the Australian National Museum in 1995, and an inaugural Doctorate of Letters (Honors Causia) from La Trobe University in 1998.
Her tribal name 'Ginibi' (black swan) was given to her in 1990 by her aunt, Eileen Morgan, a tribal elder of Box Ridge Mission. In 2007, she was named Elder of the Year at the National NAIDOC Awards.
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2981804540955562961.jpg8813054236897729134.jpg5831052819722492393.jpgDon't Take Your Love to Town Ruby Langford Ginibi , 1988 single work autobiography
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Melissa Lucashenko
Writer and Essayist-
Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning novelist and essayist who lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. She was born and grew up in Brisbane. After working as a barmaid, delivery driver and karate instructor, Melissa received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University, graduating in 1990.
Her writing explores the stories and passions of ordinary Australians with particular reference to Aboriginal people and others living around the margins of the first world. Melissa has been an independent screenplay assessor for Screen NSW and Screen Tasmania, and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Among her awards for writing are the Dobbie Prize, the Prize for Indigenous Writing (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards), and the Queensland Literary Award (Fiction Book Award). She has been shortlisted and longlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin, the Aurealis Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Her 2019 publication Too Much Lip was nominated for 13 separated awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award, which is won.
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727513947802574869.jpg6963404796738288643.jpg7439145725240749379.jpg7837969934330058597.jpg8649330385892908482.pngToo Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko , 2018 single work novel
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Peter Minter
Poet and Scholar-
Peter Minter is a leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Letters, Arts and Media at the University of Sydney. He shares English, Scottish and Aboriginal heritage, and has taught Aboriginal studies at the University of Newcastle, the University of Western Sydney and the University of Sydney.
His books include blue grass and Empty Texas, which won the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, and his poetry is widely published and regularly anthologised in Australia and internationally. In 2013 he was Poetry Editor of Overland. His editorial projects have included titles such as Cordite, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, Meanjin, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, The Literature of Australia (Norton) and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, for which he shared the 2008 Deadly Award for Aboriginal literature with his co-editor Anita Heiss. He directed the University of Sydney BlackWords project, focusing on Aboriginal poetry and poetics.
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Sally Morgan
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Sally Morgan writes children's fiction, novels, essays and more. Her parents were William Joseph (a plumber) and Gladys Milroy. After her father's death, Morgan and her four siblings were raised by her mother and grandmother. Having been told that they were of Indian background, she discovered in her teens that the family had "part"-Aboriginal ancestry from her mother's and grandmother's side. This discovery motivated her later research into her family's history and culminated in the writing of her autobiographical work, My Place, which integrates the life stories of her mother (Gladys Milroy), her grandmother (Daisy Corunna), and her grandmother's brother (Arthur Corunna).
My Place, published in 1987, immediately became a best-seller, regarded as a revelation for white readers into the plight of Aboriginal people. However, the book's extraordinary success has also drawn some criticism, from white and Aboriginal voices, raising questions of authenticity and the construction of Aboriginality, as its author had not experienced life in a 'typical' Aboriginal community. Morgan has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the Human Rights Award for her 1989 biography of an Aboriginal relative, Jack McPhee, Wanamurraganya. In 1997, she was appointed Director of the University of Western Australia Centre for Indigenous Art and History.
Sally Morgan is the mother of writers Ambelin Kwaymullina, Blaze Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, with whom she has co-written a number of works. She has written over 140 works and won over 30 awards.
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8489800820701330494.jpgAn A to Z Story of Australian Animals Sally Morgan , 2020 single work picture book
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2026710453676522892.jpg8575283524843085786.pngLittle Bird's Day Sally Morgan , 2019 single work picture book
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Bruce Pascoe
Writer and Scholar-
Bruce Pascoe a Yuin, and Bunurong man, is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria, and an award-winning Australian writer, editor, and anthologist. His works have been published nationally and internationally, and have won several national literary competitions. He has combined writing fiction and non-fiction with a career as a successful publisher and has been the director of the Australian Studies Project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. He has also worked as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, farm fence contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker, and editor. He appeared in the SBS TV program, First Australians.
His book exploring the history of Aboriginal agriculture Dark Emu : Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident? has attracted considerable attention for its discussion of land management practices in Australia prior to colonisation.
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7205122866941663523.jpg893841898422528292.jpg3268260640764871811.jpgDark Emu : Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident? Bruce Pascoe , 2014 single work criticism
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3847282990868143244.jpg4550865474076485208.jpeg7723228537306457292.jpgThe Little Red Yellow Black Book : An Introduction to Indigenous Australia Bruce Pascoe , Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies , 2008 single work non-fiction
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Dick Roughsey
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Dick Roughsey was born near Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1924. His name is translated from his tribal name Goobalathaldin, meaning 'water standing on end' or 'Rough sea'. After completing primary school he returned to tribal life. At the age of sixteen he went to the Australian mainland, to work as a stockman on cattle stations in North Queensland and as a deckhand on ships near Cairns.
He began to paint using traditional methods with bark. In 1962 he met former Ansett pilot, Percy Trezise, who became his mentor and encouraged him to also use Western methods of painting in oils. Roughsey held successful exhibitions of his work in many Australian cities. He and Trezise collaborated for many years, producing picture books which retold traditional stories. These were among the first to introduce Aboriginal culture to children. Roughsey also illustrated The Turkey and the Emu (1978), a traditional tale retold by his wife, Elsie Roughsey
Roughsey lived with his wife and their six children on Mornington Island, but usually spent half of each year on the North Queensland mainland. With Percy Trezise he discovered and studied the art in Aboriginal cave galleries in the Laura region of Cape York. One of these was the Quinkin gallery, which inspired the award-winning books The Quinkins and Turramulli the Giant Quinkin.
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5527286439110742695.jpg1175141943207423689.jpeg7851136743840722612.jpgThe Rainbow Serpent Dick Roughsey , 1975 single work picture book
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1191163426877865144.jpg6449569208138284602.jpgMoon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal Dick Roughsey , 1971 single work autobiography
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Kim Scott
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Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Indigenous (Noongar) author from Western Australia. He grew up near Albany, in southern Western Australia, then on leaving school completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Graduate Diploma in Education at Murdoch University, in Perth. He initially worked as a secondary school teacher and later turned to writing full-time.
In 2000, Scott became the first Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, with his novel Benang: From the Heart (1999). In 2011 he won both the Miles Franklin and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal with That Deadman Dance (2010). He was a guest speaker at the 2001 Century of Federation Alfred Deakin Lecture Series in Melbourne. He presented at the 2004 Melbourne 'Globalisation and Identities' forum. He has been a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council. In 2012 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and also named West Australian of the Year.
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4771769562792450260.jpg1763995410842880911.gif7774772621945319604.jpgTaboo Kim Scott , 2017 single work novel
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902678824908213901.jpg4498170486125623600.jpg405643967348642849.jpg7820189383264703127.jpg1981339287598792053.pngThat Deadman Dance Kim Scott , 2010 single work novel
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4235538972912765439.jpg124065660128083717.jpg5808940828954044135.jpg4316401369249798209.jpgBenang : From the Heart Kim Scott , 1999 single work novel
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Samuel Wagan Watson
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Samuel Wagan Watson is a State and National Award-winning poet and professional narrator and storyteller. Wagan Watson has Irish, German, Dutch, and Aboriginal (Munaldjali and Birri Gubba) ancestry. He is the son of prominent Brisbane-based writer and activist Sam Watson. Born in Brisbane Watson spent much of his earlier life on the fringe of the Sunshine Coast, but moved back to Brisbane to start a career.
In 1999, he was the winner of the David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous Writers for his first collection of poetry Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight. Since then he has written: Itinerant Blues (2001), Hotel Bone (2001), The Curse Words (2011), and Smoke Encrypted Whispers which won the 2005 NSW Premier’s Award for the Book of the Year, and the National Kenneth Slessor prize for Poetry. In 2016 the chapbook, Monster’s Ink, was published.
As a contemporary poet and performer Watson has been in demand at major literary festivals and poetry events, including adaptations of his poetry into animation with the support of the Australian Film Commission. In 2005, a short documentary ‘Bound in Bitumen’ was produced and directed by filmmaker Helen Kassila, in which Watson reflected upon the historic divide of Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane in his poem ‘Last Exit to Brisbane’.
In 2004, mixing his Indigenous culture with his love of Gothic horror, Watson produced and performed an opera ‘Die Dunkle Erde’ (The Dark Earth) with composers William Barton and Stephen Leek, which premiered in Brisbane in 2004 and again in 2005 at the Brisbane Music Festival.
Most recently, Wagan Watson won the Patrick White Award (2018).
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4726893292019631292.jpg128223180315968989.jpgSmoke Encrypted Whispers Samuel Wagan Watson , 2004 selected work poetry
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7880977499738502747.jpgOf Muse, Meandering and Midnight Samuel Wagan Watson , 2000 selected work poetry
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Archie Weller
Writer, Poet, Playwright-
Archie Weller grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the south-west of Western Australia and later attended Guildford Grammar School near Perth as a boarder. His grandfather's influence and encouragement were important in Weller's desire to write. He worked in a variety of mostly labouring jobs before writing his first novel, The Day of the Dog. It was written 'within a period of six weeks in a spirit of anger after his release from Broome jail for what he regarded as a wrongful conviction.' Ten years later, the novel was made into the AFI award winning film Blackfellas and the novel republished to coincide with the opening of the film.
Weller has also published poems and short stories in numerous anthologies and has had plays produced by the Kyana Festival, the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the Melbourne Workers Theatre. Nidjera : children crying softly together, a play exploring the emotions of a modern day Koori family and their survival (c. 1990), was written for the Melbourne Workers Theatre.
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171425622228103847.jpg1820875456551701448.jpgThe Day of the Dog Archie Weller , 1981 single work novel
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Alexis Wright
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Alexis Wright ( 及艾利西斯·莱特 ), activist and award-winning writer, is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Her first novel, Plains of Promise (1997), was nominated for national and international literary awards.
However, it was her second novel, Carpentaria that made Wright a figure in world literature, when she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007. Carpentaria was nominated for and won five national literary awards and has been re-published and translated in the United States and in Europe. Wright’s third novel, The Swan Book (2013), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin.
Alexis has won multiple awards.
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