Chloe Hooper
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| Born | 1973 |
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Chloe Hooper (1973) is an Australian author. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island, an Aboriginal community off the north-east coast of Australia. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case.
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Books [edit]
- A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
- Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee (2008)
- The Engagement (2012)
Awards [edit]
- 2002 Orange Prize. Shortlisted for (A Child's Book of True Crime)[1]
- 2006 Walkley Award. Won for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.
- 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Overall prize winner, and in Non-Fiction category, for Tall Man
- 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction in the for Tall Man
- 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Man
- 2009 Indie Book Awards. Shortlisted for Tall Man[2]
References [edit]
Websites [edit]
- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
- Items by Chloe Hooper in The Monthly
- Chloe Hooper discusses her book 'The Tall Man' at the Sydney Writers Festival video on ABC Fora
- Emily Potter 'Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime ' JASAL 3 (2004)
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