Born: Established: 1949 Billiluna, Central desert areas, Western Australia, ;
Gender:
Female
Heritage:
Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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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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