Wright is also an active land rights and Aboriginal rights activist. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker). She holds the position of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France, and Poland.

The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has also published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth. As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people.Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. ‘I’m awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of work, from fiction such as Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to her “collective memoir” of an Aboriginal elder in Tracker. ‘The writing is the best in the country, some of the best in the world we call to mind Alexis Wright when they talk about our country’s great literary voice.’ - Tara June Winch

‘Monumental… calls to mind the work of Thomas Bernhard or the quiet rage of Dostoyevsky… Praiseworthy blew me away.’ – Australian Book Review This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.Īccompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023.

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