Australian author Kim Scott to give reading
April 18, 2019
Kim Scott will give a reading at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Murie Building auditorium. A reception will be held at 6 p.m.
Scott is a multi-award-winning novelist who has twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for "Benang" and "That Deadman Dance") among other Australia literary prizes. His most recent novel is "Taboo," the 2018 winner of the Queensland Fiction Book Award. A member of the Noongar — the people indigenous to southwestern Australia — Scott is also the founder and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story Project, which is responsible for a number of bilingual (Noongar and English) picture books and regional performances of story and song.
Scott is currently a professor of writing in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is a featured guest at the 2019 American Association of Australasian Literary Studies annual conference, which will be held at UAF April 25-27.
The reading is sponsored by the UA Press. For more information email Rich Carr at rscarr@alaska.edu.