If this article has raised issues for you, or if you’re concerned about someone you know, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, the Kids Helpline on 1or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. Technology is by no means a replacement for the human element, mind you, but what it can do is make things far easier for humans to adapt. Praiseworthy will be released by Giramondo from 1 April 2023, with Professor Wright’s two award-winning novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to also be released in new editions in May 2023. This is where technology can be your compass that guides you through the tumultuous maelstrom of recession and inflation that the business landscape is currently under. Her books have been published widely including in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Poland.Īmong the many awards and acclaim for Professor Wright's work, Carpentaria was named the winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007, while the memoir, Tracker, which tells the story of Aboriginal visionary, thinker and entrepreneur, Tracker Tilmouth, won the Stella Prize in 2018. ![]() Praiseworthy is to me like what is felt in a single heartbeat.”Ī member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Professor Wright’s previous works span both fiction and non-fiction achieving great success both locally and internationally. Remember! The pulse of country is huge, and so too are its stories. These are like stories of way-finding – similar to sacred stories of country. ![]() “The novel follows a style of Aboriginal storytelling that may grow into fables of epical proportions. A maelstrom, now joined by the maelstrom of global emergencies.” On Praiseworthy, Professor Wright says, “This is a story about the world’s oldest living culture on the precipice of unprecedented times – where survival of culture, one’s very soul, has been an emergency situation for over two centuries. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. Praiseworthy is told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Professor Wright has become renowned.Ī novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, it tells the story of a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors.Ī crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. It is the latest work by Professor Wright, who also wrote Carpentaria, The Swan Book and Tracker. Western Sydney University welcomes the new novel, Praiseworthy, by acclaimed author Professor Alexis Wright.Īn epic set in the north of Australia, Praiseworthy is published by Giramondo Publishing, based within the University’s Writing and Society Research Centre.
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