About
Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Scott was awarded a PhD with distinction from the University of Western Australia in 2012.
Scott has written five novels and a children’s book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies. He began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English. His teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal. He spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his family’s history.
His first novel, True Country, was published in 1993, with an edition published in a French translation in 2005. His second novel, Benang, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 1999, the Miles Franklin Award 2000, and the Kate Challis RAKA Award 2001. Both novels were influenced by his research and seemed to be semi-autobiographical. The themes of these novels have been said to “explore the problem of self-identity faced by light-skinned Aboriginal people and…
Awards & Recognition
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