Claire G. Coleman
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Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer[1] and poet, whose 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius won the Norma K Hemming Award. The first draft of resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship.[1][2]
She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference.[3] Coleman's essay, After the Grog War, was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize,[4] while another essay, Hidden in Plain Sight, was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize.[5]
Publications
- Coleman, Claire G. (2017), "When we encountered the nomads", Meanjin, 76 (4): 88–94, ISSN 0025-6293
- Coleman, Claire G. (2017), Terra nullius, Hachette Australia, ISBN 978-0-7336-3831-2
- Coleman, Claire G. (2019), The old lie, Hachette Australia, ISBN 978-0-7336-4084-1
References
- ^ a b Sullivan, Veronica (22 August 2017). "'Speculative fiction is a powerful political tool': from War of the Worlds to Terra Nullius". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (27 January 2018), Sense of Place: Claire Coleman on Terra Nullius, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 27 September 2018
- ^ "2018 ASA Conference Program". Australian Society of Archivists. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Retrieved 17 November 2019.