Project Member
Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the author of the novels The Swan Book winner of the ASAL Gold Medal, and Carpentaria, which won five national literary awards in 2007, including the ASAL Gold Medal and the Miles Franklin Award. Her first novel Plains of Promise was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.  Her work is published internationally including the US, UK, China and India, and translated into several languages. Her other books are Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in Tennant Creek, the short story collection Le Pacte de Serpent, Take Power, a collection of essays and stories celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, and Tracker, stories of the Aboriginal visionary leader Tracker Tilmouth (the latter winning the 2018 Stella prize). She has written widely on Indigenous rights, and organised two successful Indigenous Constitutional Conventions, ‘Today We Talk About Tomorrow’ (1993), and the Kalkaringi Convention (1998).

As part of the Other Worlds project Alexis led events associated with the Oral Storytelling theme, and most significantly the fieldwork trip to the Gulf of Carpentaria in September 2018 to interview the Aboriginal leader, Clarence Walden. Telling the Story of the Gulf is of great importance to Alexis.

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