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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]
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.
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 ...
Winner of the Indigenous Voices Award, English Poetry for This Wound Is a World (2018) [38] Winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, This Wound Is a World [39] CBC's best book of 2017, Canadian poetry category, This Wound Is a World [40] Winner, P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, "Love Is a Moontime Teaching", (2017) [41] Rhodes Scholar (2016)
Latin American poetry is the poetry written by Latin American authors. Latin American poetry is often written in Spanish, but is also composed in Portuguese, Mapuche , Nahuatl , Quechua , Mazatec , Zapotec , Ladino , English, and Spanglish . [ 1 ]
Stamp depicting the poem. Inspired by Luís de Camões' The Lusiads, it is divided in ten cantos. [1] The poem tells the story of the famous Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, [2] known as "Caramuru" (Old Tupi for "Son of the Thunder"), who shipwrecked on the shores of present-day Bahia and had to live among the local indigenous peoples.
Much of Knott's advocacy began with her work against the Site C dam and taking part in the Treaty 8 Caravan. In 2014, the federal and provincial governments approved the construction of the B.C. Hydro Site C hydroelectric dam project, upsetting the people of the Prophet River and West Moberly First Nations, as it seems the dam will threaten three of the largest rivers in the Peace River ...
Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic.His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.