Claire G. Coleman
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Claire G. Coleman | |
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.jpg) Coleman delivering the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, at the Australian Society of Archivists' 2018 annual conference, in Perth, Western Australia | |
| Born | 1974 (age 51–52) |
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| Notable work | Terra Nullius, The Old Lie |
| Website | www |
Claire G. Coleman (born 1974) is an Aboriginal Australian novelist, essayist, and poet from Western Australia. She is known for her 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius, which won the Norma K Hemming Award, and the non-fiction work Lies, Damned Lies, which won the 2022 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.
Career
The manuscript of Coleman's debut novel, Terra Nullius, resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous writing fellowship. After publication, it won the Norma K Hemming Award.[2][3]
She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference.[4]
Coleman's essay, "After the Grog War", was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize,[5] while another essay, "Hidden in Plain Sight", was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize.[6]
Coleman has also written short fiction and poetry.
Awards and shortlisting
- 2017: Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel shortlist for Terra Nullius[7]
- 2018: Horne Prize shortlist for "After the Grog War"[8]
- 2018: MUD Literary Prize finalist for Terra Nullius[9]
- 2018: Stella Prize shortlist for Terra Nullius[10]
- 2019: Horne Prize shortlist for "Hidden in Plain Sight"[8]
- 2019: Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Debut shortlist for Terra Nullius[11]
- 2019: Queensland Poetry Festival Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award for "Pelin"[12]
- 2020: Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist for "That Wadjela Tongue"[13]
- 2020: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize shortlist[14]
- 2022: Queensland Literary Awards: University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award for Lies, Damned Lies[15]