Australia's most important author of our time, Professor Alexis Wright, joins Waanji countryman, artist, writer, and Aboriginal affairs advocate, Jack Wilkie-Jans, in conversation for the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival (2024).
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PLEASE NOTE: While all care and respect has been made in attempting to edit this 'podcast' as accessibly as possible, I'm not an audio engineer, nor does my video software generate subtitles. As such, I must warn of, and apologise for, any abrupt or distracting sounds and for the lack of Closed Captions.
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Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.
WINNER: University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2023
SHORTLISTED: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance, Queensland Literary Awards 2023
LONGLISTED: The Dublin Literary Award 2024
LONGLISTED: The Stella Prize 2024
Негізгі бет Alexis Wright at Cairns Tropical Writers Festival (March, 2024)
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