Alexis Wright is best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.
19 Facts About Alexis Wright
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Alexis Wright was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth and in 2024 for Praiseworthy.
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Alexis Wright was born on 25 November 1950 in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.
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Alexis Wright is an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Alexis Wright grew up in Cloncurry with her mother and grandmother.
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In 2009, Alexis Wright wrote the words for Dirtsong, a musical theatre production created and performed by the Black Arm Band theatre company.
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Alexis Wright was a 2012 attendee of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and Singapore Writers Festival.
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Alexis Wright was on the program for four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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In 2018, Alexis Wright conducted another storytelling collaboration, this time with the Gangalidda leader and activist Clarence Walden in Doomadgee, Northern Queensland.
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In 2014, Alexis Wright was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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In 2018, Alexis Wright was awarded the Stella Prize for Tracker.
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Alexis Wright was awarded the 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker.
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Alexis Wright won her second Stella Prize in 2024 for Praiseworthy.
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Alexis Wright won the Fiction Book Award and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards for Praiseworthy.
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Alexis Wright is the third author to have achieved this, after Patrick White and David Malouf.
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Alexis Wright received the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2023 and was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2024.
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Alexis Wright is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Western Sydney University.
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Alexis Wright is a member of the Australian Research Council research project "Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature".
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In 2017, Alexis Wright was named the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.