Daisy Utemorrah Daisy Utemorrah i(A31019 works by) (a.k.a. Daisy Utemara)
Born: Established: Feb 1922 Kunmunya, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: Jan 1994
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wunambul
(Storyteller) assertion
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BiographyHistory

Daisy Utemorrah, an elder of the Wunambal people was born and grew up on the Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberleys. Her family background gave her fluency in three Aboriginal languages, Wunambal, Ngarinyin, and Worora. She later moved to Mowanjum Mission, near Derby, where she was married first to a promised husband and, after his death, to Laurie Utemorrah. She had a son and a daughter with her second husband. Daisy Utemorrah began writing the stories of her people in order to ensure the continuity of Aboriginal culture. Described as a deeply sensitive and spiritual person who assisted many people, she was well loved by her friends and her community.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • In some sources, particularly earlier sources, Daisy Utemorrah's name is given as 'Daisy Utemara'. In at least one source, her husband's name is also represented in this form, as 'Laurie Utemara' (Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art, p.viii). This, combined with the coincidence that the work ascribed to 'Daisy Utemara' locates her at Mowanjum, where Daisy Utemorrah lived (see, for example, Australian Dreaming, p.299) supports the assertion that Utemara is an alternate spelling of Utemorrah. Works credited to 'Daisy Utemara' have the note 'as Daisy Utemara'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Do Not Go Around the Edges : Poems Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 Z232069 1990 selected work poetry autobiography children's (taught in 3 units) Contains poems and the life story of Daisy Utemorrah at Kunmunya Mission and her later work as a kindergarten teacher, writer and linguist.
1994 IBBY Honour Diploma — Illustration For Pat Torres's illustrations.
1992 winner Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards — Junior Fiction
1992 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
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