Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer[1] and poet, whose 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius won the Norma K Hemming Award. The first draft of resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship.[1][2]

Claire G. Coleman
Coleman delivering the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, at the Australian Society of Archivists' 2018 annual conference, in Perth, Western Australia
Occupation
  • Author
  • Poet
Websitewww.clairegcoleman.com

She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference.[3] Coleman's essay, After the Grog War, was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize,[4] while another essay, Hidden in Plain Sight, was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize.[5]

Publications
  • Coleman, Claire G. (2017), "When we encountered the nomads", Meanjin, 76 (4): 88–94, ISSN 0025-6293
  • Coleman, Claire G. (2017), Terra nullius, Hachette Australia, ISBN 978-0-7336-3831-2
  • Coleman, Claire G. (2019), The old lie, Hachette Australia, ISBN 978-0-7336-4084-1

References
  1. Sullivan, Veronica (22 August 2017). "'Speculative fiction is a powerful political tool': from War of the Worlds to Terra Nullius". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (27 January 2018), Sense of Place: Claire Coleman on Terra Nullius, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 27 September 2018
  3. "2018 ASA Conference Program". Australian Society of Archivists. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  4. "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  5. "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
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