Artists

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanji nation of the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. She is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction works and in 2007 was the recipient of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award.

Alexis Wright’s acclaimed first novel Plains of Promise was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and the NSW Premier's Awards. She has published two non-fiction works, Take Power (as editor), celebrating 20 years of land rights in Central Australia and Grog War, an examination of alcohol abuse in Tennant Creek. Her latest novel Carpentaria was published by Giramondo in 2006 and has won a number of awards including the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Awards for Fiction.