Judith Nangala Crispin Judith Nangala Crispin i(7841634 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bangerang / Kwat Kwat / Waveroo
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BiographyHistory

Judith Crispin is a composer, poet and artist. She completed a PhD in music at the Australian National University and postdoctoral studies at Paris-Sorbonne and the Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Crispin has written and edited a number of scholarly books and articles on music, poetry, philosophy and art. She has won international prizes for music, exhibited artworks across Australia and Europe, and published poetry in Australian and German journals. She has been the director of Manning Clark House in Canberra.

Her verse novel The Dingo's Noctuary, forthcoming in 2020, is 'the culmination of a two decade search for my family’s lost Bpangerang ancestry, and eighteen years of friendship with remote Warlpiri women' (Verity La).

Sources include Axon Journal (http://axonjournal.com.au/issue-2/de-profundis-and-der-doppelg%C3%A4nger) and Verity La.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 shortlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2020 shortlisted Blake Poetry Prize for On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record

Awards for Works

Poem of the Dead Women i "The dead woman rides a motorcycle, out of Ord River Valley, beyond sand plains,", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 30-31)
2024 shortlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize
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