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Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright’s novels include Carpentaria (2006), which won five national literary awards in 2007, including the ASAL Gold Medal and the Miles Franklin Award.

Alexis Wright on the sovereign time of Country

October 2023, no. 458 22 September 2023
I have often spoken of trying to write in some meaningful way about what it means to belong to all times in this place that we call our traditional homeland. Aboriginal people know that we have been here since time immemorial. We have never lost track of the wisdom and knowledge that generations of our ancestors had developed over thousands of years about the powerful nature of this country. It wa ... (read more)

Alexis Wright reviews 'Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a black woman' by Roberta Sykes

November 1997, no. 196 01 November 1997
Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a black woman is the first published volume of a three-part life story from Australia’s renowned black rights activist Dr Roberta Sykes. In Snake Cradle, Sykes chronicles the first seventeen years of her life in Queensland and gives us a generously open story in her legendary powerful and thought-provoking style. After thirty years of activism, Sykes has become so ... (read more)