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Indigenous Australian literature is the fiction, plays, poems, essays and other works authored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. While a letter written by Bennelong to Governor Arthur Phillip in 1796 is the first known work written in English by an Aboriginal person, David Unaipon was the first Aboriginal author to ...
David Unaipon in 1938. David Ngunaitponi (28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967), known as David Unaipon, was an Aboriginal Australian preacher, inventor, and author. A Ngarrindjeri man, his contribution to Australian society helped to break many stereotypes of Aboriginal people, and he is featured on the Australian $50 note in commemoration of his work.
David Hernandez (born in 1971) [1] is an American poet and novelist. Most recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. [ 2 ]
1973:Clearing: Poems from a Journey; 1981:Mid-River; 1985:When the Stones Fly Up; 1991:The Weight of My Raggedy Skin; 1998:How I Joined Humanity at Last; 2001:Crows Do Not Have Retirement; 2002:The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood; 2006:The Village of Sliding Time; 2009:The Fly in Autumn
Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia, published in 1978, is the second collection of poems by Noongar playwright and poet Jack Davis, often referred to as the 20th Century's Aboriginal Poet Laureate.
2016: Shortlisted, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry [2] 2015: Kate Challis RAKA Award for Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the Land (2012) [2] 2014: Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for Indigenous writing [2] 2012: Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, for Connection Requital. [18] [19]
David Bouchard is a Canadian author and former high school principal. Bouchard was born and raised in Saskatchewan. [1] He is a Member of the Order of Canada and a public school in Oshawa, Ontario is named after him. In his 2017 book, Proud to Be Métis, Bouchard writes that his grandfather had Ojibwa and Osage roots, but never spoke of them.
David Lee (born 1944) is an American poet and the first poet laureate of the state of Utah. His 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and, in 2001, he was a finalist for the position of United States Poet Laureate .