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Alexis Wright

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born

November 25, 1950 in Australia

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Literature & Fiction

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Alexis Wright is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Her acclaimed first novel Plains of Promise was published in 1997 by University of Queensland Press and was shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and the NSW Premier's Awards. The novel has been translated into French.

Alexis has published award-winning short stories and her other books are the anthology Take Power (Jukurrpa Books, l998), celebrating 20 years of land rights in Central Australia; and Grog War (Magabala,1997), an examination of the alcohol restrictions in Tennant Creek.

Her latest novel, Carpentaria was published by Giramondo in 2006. An epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, fro...more

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Average rating: 3.41 · 142 ratings · 33 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Carpentaria 3.40 avg rating — 118 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Plains of Promise 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Grog War 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	I Cacciatori Di Stelle 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	For The Love of Them (Evansville Heat) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Carpentaria [With Earbuds] by Alexis Wright, Isaac Drandich (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Sweet Seduction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Le Pacte Du Serpent Arc En Ciel: Nouvelles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Tolerance, Prejudice And Fear: Sydney Pen Voices, The 3 Writers Project by Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh, Alexis Wright 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Take Power: Like This Old Man Here by Central Land Council (Australia), Alexis Wright (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating: