Claire G. Coleman

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Claire G. Coleman
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Coleman delivering the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, at the Australian Society of Archivists' 2018 annual conference, in Perth, Western Australia
Born1974
Occupations
  • Author
  • Poet
Notable work Terra Nullius, The Old Lie
Website www.clairegcoleman.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Claire G. Coleman (born 1974 [1] ) is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer [2] 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. [2] [3]

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She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference. [4] Coleman's essay, After the Grog War, was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize, [5] while another essay, Hidden in Plain Sight, was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize. [6]

Works

Novels

Short fiction

Poetry

Non-fiction

Awards

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References

  1. Claire G. Coleman [@clairegcoleman] (10 February 2022). "Russell Brand is moving to the right ... He's a year younger than me so surely it's not age.. what is it?" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 10 February 2022 via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (27 January 2018), Sense of Place: Claire Coleman on Terra Nullius, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 27 September 2018
  4. "2018 ASA Conference Program". Australian Society of Archivists . Retrieved 27 September 2018.
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  10. "The 2018 Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. The Stella Prize. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  11. "Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Announces 2019 Book Shortlist". sites.dartmouth.edu. Neukom Institute for Computational Science. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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