# Alexis Wright
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alexis wright (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth.As of 2020, Wright has produced three novels, one biography, and several works of prose. Her work also appears in anthologies and journals.
== Origin and activism ==
alexis wright is a land rights activist from the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
Green Skies, Striped River: Letterman vs. Cowardice, Alexis Wright Beyond Binaries, AI/Infrastructure Snarls, and a Charlie Kirk Memorial
Cyberweather: Green Skies, No Naps
The ISC Stormcast lists Infocon status at Green for Monday, September 22, 2025. Translation, stay alert, keep patching and logging, and do not tempt fate by calling it a quiet day.
Chicago River, Now Accepting Lanes Instead of Dyes
Nearly 300 swimmers joined the …
Sarah Dimick – Unseasonable
Sarah Dimick, assistant professor of English at Northwestern University (USA), discussed her book Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 21 October 2024.
As climate change alters…
Ep38: Commission Royale
In this week’s episode, Los Guerreros talk about the precipitous idiocy of a “Royal Commission” into an attitude. As always, things have become six times stupider since the podcast was recorded, so listen here for the talking points you’ll need to use when people bring up the Royal Commission that …
21. Geordie Williamson on Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright’s novels are often thought of as “difficult,” but this episode of Fully Lit Live challenges that label, and asks what that word is really doing.
Critic Geordie Williamson is the author of the recent On Alexis Wright, part of Black Ink’s 'Writers on Writers' series. In this conversatio…
MeDIDa: The Swan Book
Episode 7 of MeDIDa, and we are discussing The Swan Book
The Swan Book is a 2013 novel written by Alexis Wright and published by Giramondo Publishing. Set in a dystopian future, with climate change and political fallout being a central theme, the book follows Oblivia, a mute young woman who was gan…
Episode 22: Jacqueline Dutton, 'Indigenous Futurism', and Utopianism and Place
In this bumper episode, we are joined by Jacqueline Dutton, a Professor in French Studies at the University of Melbourne, celebrate Matt's latest publication, and announce a competition!
Our conversation with Jacqueline covers a variety of topics, all of which are unified by a throughline of utopia…
‘Rethinking “on”: Sitting and listening to Wright’ by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
This week on The ABR Podcast, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews On Alexis Wright by Geordie Williamson. Hughes-d’Aeth notes that Williamson mounts a spirited defence of Alexis Wright against what he terms ‘Australian philistinism’, in which the reader expects literature to ‘tell us stuff, neatly and effic…
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