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Chloe Hooper

{{short description|Australian author (born 1973)}}

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| birth_name = Chloe Melisande Hooper

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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| occupation = Novelist, journalist

| language = English

| nationality = Australian

| education = Lauriston Girls' School

| alma_mater = University of Melbourne
Columbia University

| years_active = 2002–present

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Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.

Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2018 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.

Books

  • A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
  • The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008){{cite web|title=The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper|url=https://penguin.com.au/books/the-tall-man-death-and-life-on-palm-island-9780143010661 |work=Official website|publisher=Penguin Group (Australia)|access-date=23 Feb 2017}} (released as Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
  • The Engagement (2012)
  • The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (2018){{cite web |last1=Hooper |first1=Chloe |title=The Arsonist |url=https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4225-the-arsonist |website=Seven Stories Press |access-date=5 February 2021}}
  • Bedtime Story (2022)

Awards and recognition

Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of {{AUD|160,000}} given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.{{cite web | title=Past Award Recipients | website= Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation | url=https://www.myerfoundation.org.au/past-award-recipients | access-date=2 November 2022}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080607203018/http://www.thetallman.com.au/ The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828225905/http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/contributors/7 Items by Chloe Hooper] in The Monthly
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090912123038/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/09/02/2674658.htm Chloe Hooper discusses her book 'The Tall Man' at the Sydney Writers Festival] video on ABC Fora
  • {{cite journal |first=Emily |last=Potter |title=Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime |journal=JASAL |volume=3 |issn=1447-8986 |pages=95–102 |year=2004 |url=http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/37/42}}

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Category:1973 births

Category:Living people

Category:Australian women novelists

Category:Ned Kelly Award winners

Category:21st-century Australian novelists

Category:21st-century Australian women writers

Category:Walkley Award winners

Category:University of Melbourne alumni

Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni

Category:21st-century Australian non-fiction writers

Category:Australian non-fiction crime writers

Category:Australian crime fiction writers

Category:People educated at Lauriston Girls' School