Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman
Coleman delivering the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, at the Australian Society of Archivists' 2018 annual conference, in Perth, Western Australia
Born1974
Occupations
  • Author
  • Poet
Notable workTerra Nullius, The Old Lie
Coleman's voice
recorded September 2018
Websitewww.clairegcoleman.com Edit this at Wikidata

Claire G. Coleman (born 1974[1]) is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer[2] and poet, whose 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius won the Norma K Hemming Award. The first draft of resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship.[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]

  1. ^ Claire G. Coleman [@clairegcoleman] (10 February 2022). "Russell Brand is moving to the right ... He's a year younger than me so surely it's not age.. what is it?" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 10 February 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b Sullivan, Veronica (22 August 2017). "'Speculative fiction is a powerful political tool': from War of the Worlds to Terra Nullius". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  3. ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (27 January 2018), Sense of Place: Claire Coleman on Terra Nullius, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 27 September 2018
  4. ^ "2018 ASA Conference Program". Australian Society of Archivists. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  5. ^ "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  6. ^ "The Horne Prize". The Horne Prize. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2019.