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Charmaine Papertalk Green

Charmaine Papertalk Green

Australian Indigenous artist and poet

Charmaine Papertalk Green (born 1962) is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine Green she works as a visual and installation artist.

Quick Facts Born, Occupation ...

Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia.[1]

On International Women's Day in 2023, Green was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame.[2]

Career

Poetry

A number of her poems were included in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing.[3]

Her work was included in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (3rd edition),[4] while her 2019 poetry collection, Nganajungu Yagu, won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.[5][6] Green won the 2020 ALS Gold Medal for Nganajungu Yagu[7] and was shortlisted in 2019 for False Claims of Colonial Thieves.[8] In the 2020 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, she was shortlisted for Nganajungu Yagu.[9]

Her 2018 book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-written with John Kinsella, was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[10] In his 2018 review, Robert Wood wrote: "As a critique of colonial Australia and a historical document, False Claims of Colonial Thieves has a certain weight and importance".[11] She and Kinsella were interviewed by Claire Nichols for The Book Show on ABC Radio National.[12]

In 2023 Green won the Red Room Poetry Fellowship, valued at $5,000 plus a two-week residency at Bundanon. Her nominated work is Jugarnu Wangga Migamanmanha (Older woman making talk).[13] With co-author John Kinsella, she was shortlisted for the 2023 ALS Gold Medal for ART.[14]

Art

Green won the poster competition at the NAIDOC Awards in 2006.[8] She is represented by Yamaji Art Centre, Geraldton.

Works

  • Just Like That and Other Poems, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2007 ISBN 9781921064128
  • Tiptoeing Tracker Tod, Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780195524413
  • False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-authored with John Kinsella, Magabala Books, 2018 ISBN 9781925360813
  • Nganajungu Yagu, Cordite Books, 2019 ISBN 9780648511601
  • ART, co-authored with John Kinsella, Magabala Books, 2022 ISBN 9781922613738

References

  1. [1]
    "Charmaine Green". Yamaji Art. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Biotechnologist and Social Scientist honoured in WA Womens Hall of Fame". www.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    Brewster, Anne; Van den Berg, Rosemary; O'Neill, Angeline, eds. (2000). Those who remain will always remember: An anthology of Aboriginal writing. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1-86368-291-0. OCLC 222582739.
  4. [4]
    Chosen by Les A. Murray (1996). The new Oxford book of Australian verse (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553994-X. OCLC 36556974.
  5. [5]
    "Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  8. [8]
    "Charmaine Papertalk-Green". AustLit. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  9. [9]
    "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  10. [10]
    "2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  11. [11]
    Wood, Robert (25 January 2018). "False Claims of Colonial Thieves (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  12. [12]
    Nichols, Claire (24 July 2018). "Conversation and colonisation: poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  13. [13]
    "Papertalk Green wins 2023 Red Room Poetry Fellowship". Books+Publishing. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  14. [14]
    "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
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