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Alexis Wright

Australia (b.1950)

Wright is a land rights activist originally from the Waanyi people in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Wright's father, a white cattleman, died when she was five years old and she grew up in Cloncurry, Queensland with her mother and grandmother.

Awards: James Tait Black (2023) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Plains of Promise (2000)
   Carpentaria (2006)
   The Swan Book (2015)
   Praiseworthy (2023)