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The limits of language
Anita Heiss + Tony Birch + Claire G. Coleman
kuril dhagun, State Library of Queensland
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
English may be the lingua franca of the world, but it has its limits in a land where rich Indigenous tongues already abounded. Three leading Aboriginal authors discuss how they have harnessed English to express their stories and created a new and inspiring way to use the language.
#Artists
Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is the award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, children’s novels and poetry. She is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation, and a board member of University of Queensland Press and Circa Contemporary Circus. Anita is a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland and an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation. Anita is currently adapting her novel Tiddas (S&S, 2014) for the stage. Her latest novel is Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray.
Tony Birch
Claire G. Coleman
Claire G Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew up in a Forestry's settlement in the middle of a tree plantation, where her dad worked, not far out of Perth. She wrote her black&write! fellowship-winning manuscript Terra Nullius while travelling around Australia in a caravan. Her latest book is The Old Lie.
#Moderator
Grace Lucas-Pennington
Grace Lucas-Pennington is a Bundjalung/European person living on Yuggera land. She grew up mostly between Bundjalung country on the NSW north coast and the greater Logan/Brisbane area. Grace is currently the Senior Editor for State Library of Queensland’s black&write! Indigenous Writing and Project. She was awarded the 2020 Nakata Brophy prize for poetry.
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