1. Kim Scott was born on 18 February 1957 and is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry.
11 Facts About Kim Scott
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Kim Scott is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
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Kim Scott has written five novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies.
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Kim Scott began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English.
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Kim Scott's teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal.
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Kim Scott spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his family's history.
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Kim Scott was the first indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award for Benang, which has since been published in translation in France and the Netherlands.
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On 21 June 2011, it was announced that Kim Scott had won the 2011 Miles Franklin Award for this novel.
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Kim Scott won the 2011 Victorian Premier's Prize for the same novel.
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Kim Scott was appointed Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts of Curtin University in December, 2011.
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Kim Scott is a member of The Centre for Culture and Technology, leading its Indigenous Culture and Digital Technologies research program.