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Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 , 1965 and 1967 .
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). [ 6 ] There was a flourishing of Aboriginal literature from the 1970s through to the 1990s, coinciding with a period of political advocacy and focus on Indigenous Australian ...
David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author; James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher; Ellen van Neerven – novelist and poet; Sam Watson – novelist and filmmaker; Samuel Wagan Watson – poet; Herb Wharton – poet and novelist; Tara June Winch – novelist; Alexis Wright – Miles Franklin Award winning ...
Reed-Gilbert wrote poetry and prose and was actively involved in writers groups and publishing the work of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander [4] and Māori writers. [5] She was the co-founder and inaugural Chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN). [1] [6] She was also a member of the Aboriginal Studies Press Advisory ...
View history; Tools. Tools. ... This is a list of female poets with a ... Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal ...
Sykes with Gordon Briscoe at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, 30 July 1972. Sykes was expelled from St Patricks College at age 14 and, after a succession of jobs, including a nurse's assistant at the Townsville General Hospital from 1959 to 1960, she moved to Brisbane and then to Sydney in the early to mid-1960s, where she worked as a striptease dancer at the notorious Pink Pussycat Club ...
Kath Walker (1920–1993), Aboriginal poet, short story writer and artist; Lucy Walker, pseudonym of Dorothy Lucie Sanders (1907–1987), romance novelist; Dorothy Wall (1894–1942), children's author and illustrator; Ania Walwicz (1951–2020), poet, prose writer and visual artist; Nadia Wheatley (born 1949), children's novelist and freelance ...
Watson had a strong interest in both theatre and poetry. This helped her create numerous pieces of poetry, her first collection being published in 1982. In her poetry, she describes how Aboriginal people are viewed by the rest of society as well as how they view the modern world. [9] Black Child, written in 1977, poetry [9]