![]() ![]() It's almost as if that was where it all started.Īlexis: Well, they were preparing me for… to be useful. Nic: It's almost as if they were preparing you for Tracker. ![]() Enough, because in Queensland, we talk slower. They wanted every word recorded, and I'm quite fast, as in writing down what people say. I wrote down every word that they said in the meetings. When I look back at it now, this is what they were teaching me.Īlexis: A good skill in listening. They wanted me to learn to hear, and to listen, I think. They wanted this young woman, I was quite fiery in those days, and I think they were training me a little bit to be useful. One of the jobs that I had was to write down what they said, and in all the meetings that we had, I would take the minutes. I was involved in a lot of our organisations up there, and communities, and the older people expected the younger people to work, and to help in our struggle. Why do you write? Why the need to write?Īlexis: Years ago, when I was a young woman, I did a lot of writing for our own people, particularly when I was living at home in northwest Queensland. She won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for her magnificent novel Carpentaria, and the Stella Prize in 2018 for her extraordinary biography of Bruce ‘Tracker’ Tilmouth, Tracker.Īlexis: Thank you very much, Nic, and thanks for having me here. Nic Brasch: Alexis Wright is the only person to have won both prizes named in honour of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. ![]()
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