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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 .
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 ...
Connie Fife (August 27, 1961 – February 3, 2017) was a Canadian Cree poet and editor. She published three books of poetry, and edited several anthologies of First Nations women's writing. Her work appeared in numerous other anthologies and literary magazines.
Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. [2] She was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah ( Stradbroke Island ), Queensland .
Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; Marilyn Dumont (born 1955), First Nations Canadian poet; Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writer; Claudia Emerson (born 1957), American poet; won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Leane's poetry and creative works explore Aboriginal perspectives and settler presentations in literature, and Aboriginal writing "as an important site of personal, national and collective memory." [ 6 ] She has published three volumes of poetry and fiction, and numerous other publications including poetry, book reviews, and interviews.
Eva Knowles Johnson belongs to the Malak Malak people and was born in 1946 at Daly River in the Northern Territory. [1] At the age of two, Johnson was taken from her mother and placed on a Methodist Mission on Croker Island and at the age of 10 was transferred to an orphanage in Adelaide.
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 ...