Charmaine Papertalk Green (born 1962) is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine Green she works as a visual and installation artist.
Charmaine Papertalk Green | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Eradu, near Geraldton, Western Australia |
| Occupation | Poet, visual and installation artist |
| Language | English, Badimaya and Wajarri |
| Notable works | Nganajungu Yagu |
| Notable awards | Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, 2020 Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame, 2023 |
Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia.[1]
On International Women's Day in 2023, Green was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame.[2]
Career
editPoetry
editA number of her poems were included in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing.[3]
Her work was included in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (3rd edition),[4] while her 2019 poetry collection, Nganajungu Yagu, won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.[5][6] Green won the 2020 ALS Gold Medal for Nganajungu Yagu[7] and was shortlisted in 2019 for False Claims of Colonial Thieves.[8] In the 2020 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, she was shortlisted for Nganajungu Yagu.[9]
Her 2018 book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-written with John Kinsella, was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[10] In his 2018 review, Robert Wood wrote: "As a critique of colonial Australia and a historical document, False Claims of Colonial Thieves has a certain weight and importance".[11] She and Kinsella were interviewed by Claire Nichols for The Book Show on ABC Radio National.[12]
In 2023 Green won the Red Room Poetry Fellowship, valued at $5,000 plus a two-week residency at Bundanon. Her nominated work is Jugarnu Wangga Migamanmanha (Older woman making talk).[13] With co-author John Kinsella, she was shortlisted for the 2023 ALS Gold Medal for ART.[14]
Art
editGreen won the poster competition at the NAIDOC Awards in 2006.[8] She is represented by Yamaji Art Centre, Geraldton.
Works
edit- Papertalk Green, Charmaine (2007). Just Like That and Other Poems. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 9781921064128.
- —— (2014). Tiptoeing Tracker Tod. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195524413.
- ——; Kinsella, John (2018). False Claims of Colonial Thieves. Magabala Books. ISBN 9781925360813.
- —— (2019). Nganajungu Yagu. Cordite Books. ISBN 9780648511601.
- ——; Kinsella, John (2022). ART. Magabala Books. ISBN 9781922613738.
References
edit- ^ "Charmaine Green". Yamaji Art. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Biotechnologist and Social Scientist honoured in WA Womens Hall of Fame". www.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ Brewster, Anne; Van den Berg, Rosemary; O'Neill, Angeline, eds. (2000). Those who remain will always remember: An anthology of Aboriginal writing. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1-86368-291-0. OCLC 222582739.
- ^ Chosen by Les A. Murray (1996). The new Oxford book of Australian verse (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553994-X. OCLC 36556974.
- ^ "Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books Publishing. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Charmaine Papertalk-Green". AustLit. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books Publishing. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ Wood, Robert (25 January 2018). "False Claims of Colonial Thieves (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)". Books Publishing. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ Nichols, Claire (24 July 2018). "Conversation and colonisation: poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2023 Red Room Poetry Fellowship". Books Publishing. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.