Carpentaria

Alexis Wright is an Aboriginal Australian novelist and essayist, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Born in 1950, she is one of Australia's most celebrated and formally radical novelists, known for fiction that combines oral tradition, myth, and postmodern experimentation to address the survival and continuity of First Nations cultures in Australia. Her novels include Plains of Promise (1997) and Carpentaria (2006), which won the Miles Franklin Award and is considered one of the landmark works of Australian literature. Read more →