Charmaine Papertalk Green

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Charmaine Papertalk Green
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Eradu, near Geraldton, Western Australia
OccupationPoet, visual and installation artist
LanguageEnglish, Badimaya and Wajarri
Notable worksNganajungu 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 Green she works as a visual and installation artist.

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Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia. [1]

On International Women's Day in 2023, Green was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame. [2]

Career

Poetry

A number of her poems were included in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing. [3]

Her work was included in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (3rd edition), [4] while her 2019 poetry collection, Nganajungu Yagu, won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. [5] [6] Green won the 2020 ALS Gold Medal for Nganajungu Yagu [7] and was shortlisted in 2019 for False Claims of Colonial Thieves. [8] In the 2020 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, she was shortlisted for Nganajungu Yagu. [9]

Her 2018 book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-written with John Kinsella, was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. [10] In his 2018 review, Robert Wood wrote: "As a critique of colonial Australia and a historical document, False Claims of Colonial Thieves has a certain weight and importance". [11] She and Kinsella were interviewed by Claire Nichols for The Book Show on ABC Radio National. [12]

In 2023 Green won the Red Room Poetry Fellowship, valued at $5,000 plus a two-week residency at Bundanon. Her nominated work is Jugarnu Wangga Migamanmanha (Older woman making talk). [13] With co-author John Kinsella, she was shortlisted for the 2023 ALS Gold Medal for ART. [14]

Art

Green won the poster competition at the NAIDOC Awards in 2006. [8] She is represented by Yamaji Art Centre, Geraldton.

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Charmaine Green". Yamaji Art. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Biotechnologist and Social Scientist honoured in WA Womens Hall of Fame". www.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Brewster, Anne; Van den Berg, Rosemary; O'Neill, Angeline, eds. (2000). Those who remain will always remember: An anthology of Aboriginal writing. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN   1-86368-291-0. OCLC   222582739.
  4. ↑ Chosen by Les A. Murray (1996). The new Oxford book of Australian verse (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-553994-X. OCLC   36556974.
  5. ↑ "Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Charmaine Papertalk-Green". AustLit. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  10. ↑ "2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  11. ↑ Wood, Robert (25 January 2018). "False Claims of Colonial Thieves (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  12. ↑ Nichols, Claire (24 July 2018). "Conversation and colonisation: poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "Papertalk Green wins 2023 Red Room Poetry Fellowship". Books+Publishing. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  14. ↑ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
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