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{{user sandbox}}'''Daisy Gawoon Utemorrah''' (1922 – 1994) was an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, and community leader.<ref name=":1">{{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>

Utemorrah was born on 14 January 1922 to her mother Polly Unman, a [[Ngarinyin]] woman, and her father Harry, a [[Wunambal]] man. Her father died when she was an infant. She was raised by her paternal uncle Pompey Goolaloowarra on the [[Mowanjum Community|Kunmunya Mission]] in [[Kimberley (Western Australia)|Kimberley, Western Australia]].<ref name=":1" />

She was an [[Wunambal]] elder, and was fluent in three Aboriginal languages, [[Wunambal language|Wunambal]], [[Ngarinyin language|Ngarinyin]], and [[Worrorra language|Worora]].<ref name=":2" />

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 name=":2">{{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>

Utemorrah was one of the founders of [[Magabala Books]], an Indigenous Australian publishing house in [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome, Australia]], and Australia'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>

The [[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>

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" />



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>
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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.

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