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{{user sandbox}}'''Daisy Gawoon Utemorrah''' (1922 – 1994) was an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, and community leader.<ref>{{Citation|last=Jebb|first=Mary Anne|title=Utemorrah, Daisy Gawoon (1922–1994)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/utemorrah-daisy-gawoon-27726/text35404|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|place=Canberra|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2021-05-10}}</ref>
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[[Western Australian Premier's Book Awards]] - Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors ($15,000 and publishing contract with [[Magabala Books]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mem: 9368384|title=Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem’s Book Award winners announced {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/10/154890/scott-joins-wa-writers-hall-of-fame-wa-prems-book-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-05-10|language=en-AU}}</ref>

An [[Wunambal]] Elder poet and activist. Utemorrah was one of the founders of Magabala Books, the Broome-based publishing house that exclusively publishes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and is the nation’s oldest independent Indigenous publishing house<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2020-08-10|title=Teela May Reid wins Daisy Utemorrah Award for “Our Matriarchs Matter"|url=https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/magabala-to-publish-teela-may-reids-daisy-utemorrah-award-winning-novel/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Women's Agenda|language=en-AU}}</ref>

In her acceptance speech, Teela May Reid acknowledged the impact Daisy Utemorrah’s life had on her decision to enter a manuscript into the award.<ref name=":0" />

Her book of poety ''Do Not Go Around the Edges'', published by Magabala Books in 1990 won the 1992 Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Award for Junior Fiction, and was shortlisted by the [[Children's Book Council of Australia]] for the [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers]] in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Daisy Utemorrah (81 works by)|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A31019|url-status=live|access-date=10 May 2021|website=AusLit}}</ref>



https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A31019 :

Daisy Utemorrah, an elder of the wunambal people was born and grew up on the Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberleys. Her family background gave her fluency in three Aboriginal languages, Wunambal, Ngarinyin, and Worora. She later moved to Mowanjum Mission, near Derby, where she was married first to a promised husband and, after his death, to Laurie Utemorrah. She had a son and a daughter with her second husband. Daisy Utemorrah began writing the stories of her people in order to ensure the continuity of Aboriginal culture. Described as a deeply sensitive and spiritual person who assisted many people, she was well loved by her friends and her community.


== Selected publications ==

; <nowiki>Do Not Go Around the Edges : Poems Daisy Utemorrah  , Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 selected work poetry autobiography children's</nowiki>
; <nowiki>Moonglue Daisy Utemorrah  , Sue Wyatt  (illustrator), Western Australia : Magabala Books , 1993 picture book children's Indigenous story</nowiki>
; <nowiki>Dunbi the Owl Daisy Utemorrah  , Pamela Lofts , Pamela Lofts (illustrator), Sydney : Ashton Scholastic , 1983 picture book children's Indigenous story</nowiki>
; <nowiki>Dunbi : A Traditional Story Neil Carter  (illustrator), Daisy Utemorrah  , East Perth : Western Australia Aboriginal Education Resouces Unit , 1983 picture book children's dreaming story</nowiki>
; <nowiki>Worrorra Lalai Worrorra Dreamtime Stories Daisy Utemorrah  , ( trans. Mark Clendon ) Halls Creek : Kimberley Language Resource Centre , 2000 selected work prose Indigenous story dreaming story</nowiki>
;

Daisy Utemorrah was an internationally renowned children’s author, whose published titles include Dumbi, The Snake that Bit the Sun and a collection of poems and stories called Don’t Go Round the Edges. She was born at Kunmunya in February 1922. Her family’s traditional land is Loolim, near the coast between Kuri Bay and the George Water. Their traditional name is Arrlooliya, and they are also of the Arrbalarriya moiety. Daisy’s moiety title, therefore, was Nyimalaja, and her clan title was Nyiloolinya. Her abi name was Kowan, and her great name was Orlumbun.

Revision as of 14:41, 10 May 2021

Daisy Gawoon Utemorrah (1922 – 1994) was an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, and community leader.[1]

Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors ($15,000 and publishing contract with Magabala Books)[2]

An Wunambal Elder poet and activist. Utemorrah was one of the founders of Magabala Books, the Broome-based publishing house that exclusively publishes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and is the nation’s oldest independent Indigenous publishing house[3]

In her acceptance speech, Teela May Reid acknowledged the impact Daisy Utemorrah’s life had on her decision to enter a manuscript into the award.[3]

Her book of poety Do Not Go Around the Edges, published by Magabala Books in 1990 won the 1992 Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Award for Junior Fiction, and was shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia for the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers in 1992.[4]


https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A31019 :

Daisy Utemorrah, an elder of the wunambal people was born and grew up on the Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberleys. Her family background gave her fluency in three Aboriginal languages, Wunambal, Ngarinyin, and Worora. She later moved to Mowanjum Mission, near Derby, where she was married first to a promised husband and, after his death, to Laurie Utemorrah. She had a son and a daughter with her second husband. Daisy Utemorrah began writing the stories of her people in order to ensure the continuity of Aboriginal culture. Described as a deeply sensitive and spiritual person who assisted many people, she was well loved by her friends and her community.


Selected publications

Do Not Go Around the Edges : Poems Daisy Utemorrah  , Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 selected work poetry autobiography children's
Moonglue Daisy Utemorrah  , Sue Wyatt  (illustrator), Western Australia : Magabala Books , 1993 picture book children's Indigenous story
Dunbi the Owl Daisy Utemorrah  , Pamela Lofts , Pamela Lofts (illustrator), Sydney : Ashton Scholastic , 1983 picture book children's Indigenous story
Dunbi : A Traditional Story Neil Carter  (illustrator), Daisy Utemorrah  , East Perth : Western Australia Aboriginal Education Resouces Unit , 1983 picture book children's dreaming story
Worrorra Lalai Worrorra Dreamtime Stories Daisy Utemorrah  , ( trans. Mark Clendon ) Halls Creek : Kimberley Language Resource Centre , 2000 selected work prose Indigenous story dreaming story

Daisy Utemorrah was an internationally renowned children’s author, whose published titles include Dumbi, The Snake that Bit the Sun and a collection of poems and stories called Don’t Go Round the Edges. She was born at Kunmunya in February 1922. Her family’s traditional land is Loolim, near the coast between Kuri Bay and the George Water. Their traditional name is Arrlooliya, and they are also of the Arrbalarriya moiety. Daisy’s moiety title, therefore, was Nyimalaja, and her clan title was Nyiloolinya. Her abi name was Kowan, and her great name was Orlumbun.

  1. ^ Jebb, Mary Anne, "Utemorrah, Daisy Gawoon (1922–1994)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2021-05-10
  2. ^ Mem: 9368384. "Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2021-05-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b "Teela May Reid wins Daisy Utemorrah Award for "Our Matriarchs Matter"". Women's Agenda. 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  4. ^ "Daisy Utemorrah (81 works by)". AusLit. Retrieved 10 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)