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Alexis Wright (born 1950) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian educator, novelist and non-fiction writer. She is a member of the Waanyi people from the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria.[1]
Alexis Wright was born in Cloncurry, Queensland, .[2]
Wrights most recent novel is the ground breaking Carpentaria, a magic realist epic set it the gulf country of her ancestors.
| “ | I was walking over a footbridge behind two elderly gentlemen and hearing them talk, and that's when I thought 'That's the way I have to write this novel'. It reminded me of the way people talk up in the Gulf. Kind of musical.[2] | ” |
She was also inspired by international writers such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Carlos Fuentes and Seamus Heaney.[2] Carpentaria was shortlisted for the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize South East Asia and South Pacific section.[3]
has been translated into French as Les plaines de l’espoir (1999).
[edit] Bibliography
Novels
- Plains of Promise. (UQP, 1997)
- Carpentaria. (Giramondo, 2006) ISBN 1-920882-17-0 Review Review Review
Short stories
- Le pacte de serpent. [The Serpent’s Covenant] (2002)
Non-fiction
- Grog war. (Magabala, 1997) ISBN 1875641319 Review
- Croire en L’incroyable. [Believing the Unbelievable] (2000)
Editor
- Take Power, Like This Old Man Here: An anthology of writings celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, 1977-1997 (IAD, l998) ISBN 1864650052
[edit] References
- ^ Alexis Wright. Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne (2007-03-15). Retrieved on 2007-05-13.
- ^ a b c O'Sullivan, Jane (2006-09-09). From here to Carpentaria. The Age. Retrieved on 2007-05-13.
- ^ Shortlist 2007. Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-05-13.
[edit] External links
- Breaking Taboos Essay
