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Magabala Books is an Indigenous Australian publishing house based in Broome, Western Australia, founded in 1987. [1] [2] Their stated objective is "restoring, preserving and maintaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures". [3] The name Magabala is a Yawuru, Karrajari and Nyulnyul word for the bush banana. [4]
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of ... ($15,000 and publishing contract with Magabala Books). ...
The first edition, entitled Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?, was published by Magabala Books in 2014. The title refers to what is known as the Emu in the sky constellation in Aboriginal astronomy, known as Gugurmin, or "dark emu" to the Wiradjuri people.
Wanda Koolmatrie (actually Leon Carmen), My Own Sweet Time, Magabala Books, Australia (1994), was presented as an autobiographical account by an Aboriginal woman born in 1949, who was taken from her mother and raised by white foster parents. Its actual author was Leon Carmen, a white Australian man and taxi driver with literary aspirations who ...
Helen Milroy was born in Perth, and traces her ancestral lineage to the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.Milroy studied medicine at the University of Western Australia, [3] becoming the country's first Indigenous medical doctor in 1983. [2]
Charmaine Papertalk Green Born 1962 (age 62–63) Eradu, near Geraldton, Western Australia Occupation Poet, visual and installation artist Language English, Badimaya and Wajarri Notable works Nganajungu Yagu Notable awards Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, 2020 Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame, 2023 Charmaine Papertalk Green (born 1962) is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine ...
Yirra and her deadly dog, Demon (ABC Books, 2007) ISBN 978-0-7333-2039-2; Demon Guards the School Yard (OUP / Laguna Bay, Australia 2011) ISBN 9780195572568; My Australian Story: Our Race for Reconciliation (Scholastic, Australia 2017) ISBN 9781760276119; Koori Princess (Magabala Books 2022) ISBN 9781922613158
ABC Books: Children's Book of the Year Award [65] Older Readers: Davina Bell: The End of the World is Bigger than Love: Text Younger Readers: Kate Gordon: Aster's Good, Right Things: Riveted Press Picture Book: Meg McKinlay, illus. Matt Ottley How to Make a Bird: Walker Books Early Childhood: Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel ...