Kim Scott
{{Short description|Indigenous Australian novelist (born 1957)}}
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Kim Scott {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} (born 18 February 1957){{cite web|title=State Finalist Australian of the Year 2013|url=http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1004|website=www.australianoftheyear.org.au/|publisher=Australian of the Year Awards|access-date=15 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307131951/http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1004|archive-date=7 March 2016}} is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Biography
Scott was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1957, and is the eldest of four siblings with a white mother and an Aboriginal father.
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.{{cite web|title= Austlit — Kim Scott |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A13678|access-date= 29 March 2024}}
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 examine the government's assimilationist policies during the first decades of the twentieth century".
Scott was the first indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award for Benang, which has since been published in translation in France and the Netherlands. His book, Kayang and Me, was written in collaboration with Noongar elder Hazel Brown, his aunt, and was published in May 2005. The work is a monumental oral-based history of the author's family, the south coast Noongar people of Western Australia.{{Cite book|url=https://fremantlepress.com.au/products/kayang-me|title=Kayang & Me - Fremantle Press}}
His 2010 novel That Deadman Dance (Picador) explores the lively fascination felt between Noongar, British colonists and American whalers in the early years of the 19th century. On 21 June 2011, it was announced that Scott had won the 2011 Miles Franklin Award for this novel. Scott also won the 2011 Victorian Premier's Prize for the same novel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2011|title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011|website=The Wheeler Centre|access-date=2 February 2019|archive-date=8 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208195454/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2011|url-status=dead}}
Scott was appointed Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts of Curtin University in December, 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/award-winning-author-kim-scott-appointed-professor-at-curtin/|title=Award-winning author Kim Scott appointed Professor at Curtin - News and Events | Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia|first=Grace|last=Daniel|date=1 December 2011|website=News and Events}} He is a member of The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), leading its [http://ccat-lab.org/program/noongar-knowledge-networks/ Indigenous Culture and Digital Technologies] research program.{{Cite web|title = Professor Kim Scott {{!}} Curtin University|url = http://ccat-lab.org/management/professor-kim-scott/|website = ccat-lab.org|access-date = 2015-09-05}}{{Cite web|title = Indigenous Culture and Digital Technologies - Centre For Culture & Technology|url = http://ccat-lab.org/program/noongar-knowledge-networks/|website = ccat-lab.org|access-date = 2015-09-05}}
Scott lives in Coolbellup, a southern suburb of Fremantle, Western Australia, with his wife and two children.
Awards
- 1999 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction Award for Benang: From the Heart
- 2000 – (joint winner) Miles Franklin Literary Award for Benang: From the Heart
- 2001 – The Kate Challis RAKA Award for Creative Prose for Benang: From the Heart
- 2011 – Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book south-east Asia and the Pacific, for That Deadman Dance
- 2011 – Miles Franklin Literary Award for That Deadman Dance
- 2011 – ALS Gold Medal for That Deadman Dance
- 2011 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction Award and Premier's Prize for That Deadman Dance
- 2012 – Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile – Kim Scott |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=522 |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}
- 2018 – Queensland Literary Awards, University of Queensland Fiction Book Award for Taboo{{Cite news|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/10/24/118112/queensland-literary-awards-2018-winners-announced/|title=Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced {{!}} Books+Publishing|date=24 October 2018|access-date=2018-10-23}}
- 2019 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, for Taboo{{Cite web|date=2019-02-01|title=VPLAs 2019: Manus detainee Boochani wins $100k top prize|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/02/01/122726/vplas-2019-manus-detainee-boochani-wins-100k-top-prize/|access-date=2020-12-09|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2019|title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019|website=The Wheeler Centre|access-date=2019-01-31|archive-date=29 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229171500/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2019|url-status=dead}}
- 2019 – shortlisted for 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Fiction, for Taboo{{cite web | title=Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | website=State Library of South Australia | url=https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature | date=December 2019|access-date=28 January 2020}}
- 2020 – inducted into Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame{{Cite web|date=2020-08-10|title=Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/10/154890/scott-joins-wa-writers-hall-of-fame-wa-prems-book-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Books+Publishing}}
- 2023 – Inaugural Indigenous Studies Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2024 – Elected as Royal Society of Literature International Writer{{cite web|url=https://bronasbooks.com/2024/12/10/royal-society-of-literature-international-writers-2024/|title=Royal Society of Literature International Writers 2024|date=10 December 2024|access-date=2 January 2025|website=bronasbooks.com}}
Bibliography
=Novels=
- True Country (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1993)
- Benang: From the Heart (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999)
- Lost (Southern Forest Arts, 2006)
- That Deadman Dance (Picador, 2010)
- Taboo (Picador Australia, 2017)
=Short stories=
- "An Intimate Act" in Summer Shorts by Peter Holland (Fremantle Press, 1993)
- "Registering Romance" in Summer Shorts 3 : Stories – Poems – Articles – Images by Bill Warnock, et al., (Fremantle Press, 1995)
- "Into the Light (after Hans Heysen's painting of the same name)" in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember : An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing by Anne Brewster, et al., (Fremantle Press, 2000)
- "Damaged but Persistent" in Siglo no.12 Summer (2000)
- "Capture", in Southerly (pp. 24–33), vol.62 no.2 (2002)
- Escapeó Éll Ćhapo
= Children's picture book =
- The Dredgersaurus (Sandcastle demoliter Books, 2001)
=Non-fiction=
- Kayang and Me with Hazel Brown (Fremantle Arts Press, 2005)
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040323050542/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2003/04/06/stories/2003040600180300.htm Biography of Kim Scott and the review of his Benang book]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060602093847/http://www.mwf.com.au/Bios/scottk.html another review of the Benang book]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080723130922/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/the_arts/artists_and_orgs/artists/kim_scott Australian Government – The Arts] (Retrieved (31 March 2008)
- [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/54/56 Lisa Slater 'Kim Scott's Benang: An Ethics of Uncertainty' JASAL 4 (2005)]
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