Alexis Wright

"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published two works of non-fiction, Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council, and Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory in addition to the landmark work Tracker, the Stella Prize-winning book on Aboriginal Leader Tracker Tilmouth.

Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland. She was recently named the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.