Alexis Wright FAHA (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her “collective memoir” of Leigh Bruce “Tracker” Tilmouth.
As of 2023, Wright has produced four novels, one biography, and several works of prose. Her work also appears in anthologies and journals.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Plains of Promise (University of Queensland Press, 1997). Reprint 2000,
Carpentaria (Sydney: Giramondo, 2006)
The Swan Book (Sydney: Giramondo, 2013)
Praiseworthy (Sydney: Giramondo, 2023)
Short stories
The Serpent’s Covenant (Acte Sud, 2002).
Non-fiction
Grog War (Magabala, 1997).
Believing the Unbelievable (Actes Sud, 2000).
Tracker (Sydney: Giramondo, 2017).
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