Benang

Kim Scott is an Australian author of Noongar heritage who has won the Miles Franklin Award twice — for Benang (1999) and That Deadman Dance (2011). He is the first Indigenous Australian author to have won the Miles Franklin. His work is deeply informed by his connection to the Noongar people and language of southwestern Australia, and is concerned with the possibilities of Indigenous survival and regeneration in the face of colonisation. Read more →