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Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Noongar author from Western Australia. He began writing for publication when he became an English teacher and has had poetry and short stories published in a number of anthologies. Kim’s Benang was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award, and in 2011, he won both the Miles Franklin and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal with That Deadman Dance. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and also named Western Australian of the Year. Scott's novel Taboo won both the Indigenous Writers' Prize and the Book of the Year in the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Noongar author from Western Australia. He began writing for publication when he became an English teacher and has had poetry and short stories published in a number of anthologies. Kim’s Benang was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award, and in 2011, he won both the Miles Franklin and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal with That Deadman Dance. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and also named Western Australian of the Year. Scott's novel Taboo won both the Indigenous Writers' Prize and the Book of the Year in the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
"'This is a complex, thoughtful, and exceptionally generous offering by a master storyteller at the top of his game.' -- The Guardian ""Ambitious, unsentimental [and] morally challenging.' -- Sydney Morning Herald 'Scott is one of the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this continent today, with great courage and formidable narrative prowess – and Taboo is his most daring novel yet.' -- Sydney Review of Books"
