Joe Tramacchi Joe Tramacchi i(A22502 works by) (a.k.a. Joseph Charles Alessandro Tramacchi)
Born: Established: 1954 Gympie, Gympie area, Gympie - Cooloola - Tin Can Bay area, South East Queensland, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Australian ; Italian
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BiographyHistory

Joe Tramacchi had trained as a teacher at the Jitapurru School at Wangkatjungka Community and at the Kulkarriya School, Noonkanbah.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja Tjarany : Tjaranykura Tjukurrpa Ngaanpa Kalkinpa Wangka Tjukurrtjanu; Tjarany : Roughtail Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 Z843149 1990 selected work children's fiction children's Indigenous story

'Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia’s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kukatja, the book includes magnificent paintings, maps, kinship diagrams, exercises and language notes. Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Award.'

1993 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
1993 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize for Writing for Children
1993 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards Book of the Year
1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards Children's Book Award
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