Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 November 1950
CountryAustralia
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It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.
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When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
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The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.