Jeanine Leane

Broschiertes Buch

Purple Threads

Beschreibung

Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.

Autor

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award. She has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and has won the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Poetry twice. She has been the recipient of a Red Room Poetry Fellowship, two Australian Research Council Fellowships; in 2021 she was the recipient of the University of Sydney's School of Literature Art and Media (SLAM) Poetry Prize; and runner up in the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest. Jeanine teaches Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780702266027
• ISBN-10: 0702266027
• Artikelnr.: 72869315