Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the novels Carpentaria, The Swan Book and Praiseworthy, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, Grog War, and Tracker. In 2024, Praiseworthy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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A museum of objects in my study that accompanied the long journey of writing still cast their wonderment through thoughts and imaginary possibilities; the many pictures on the walls and desk – a small print of a Rainbow Serpent, birds, art, photos of dust storms, haze, smoke, a young boxer, mythical landscapes in Asia – all had this responsibility.

Carpentaria imagines the cultural mind as sovereign and in control, while freely navigating through the known country of colonialism to explore the possibilities of other worlds.

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Alexis Wright

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An excerpt from ‘Dream Geographies’

On writing Carpentaria