Alexis Wright
- January 6, 2024
- Writer
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Alexis Wright Biography
| Name | Alexis Wright |
| Birthday | Nov 25 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Cloncurry |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Alexis Wright is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on November 25, 1950 in Cloncurry, Australia. Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is an 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.
When the Northern Territory Intervention proposed by the Howard Government in mid-2007 was introduced, Wright delivered a high-profile 10,000-word speech, sponsored by International PEN, in which her identification of an ethos of national fear in Australia came to be portrayed in the national media as a characterisation of the feelings of Indigenous peoples associated with the Intervention.
In 2017, Wright was named the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.
Wright’s most recent book, Tracker, her tribute to the central Australian economist Tracker Tilmouth, was published by Giramondo in 2017. A biographical work variously characterized as unconventional and complicated, Tracker won the 2018 Stella Prize. In the words of Ben Etherington: “It is a work, epic in scope and size, that will ensure that a legend of Central Australian politics is preserved in myth.” She was awarded the 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker. Tracker also won the 2018 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards. and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for No-Fiction 2019. Wright was on the program for four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Her second novel, Carpentaria, took two years to conceive and more than six years to write. It was rejected by every major publisher in Australia before independent publisher Giramondo published it in 2006. Since then it has won the Miles Franklin Award in June 2007, the 2007 Fiction Book award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the 2007 ALS Gold Medal and the 2007 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.
Alexis Wright Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Alexis Wright is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexis Wright 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Alexis Wright’s first book, the novel Plains of Promise, published in 1997, was nominated for several literary awards and has been reprinted several times by University of Queensland Press.
Wright is also the author of non-fiction works: Take Power, on the history of the land rights movement, was published in 1998, and Grog War (Magabala Books) on the introduction of alcohol restrictions in Tennant Creek, published in 1997.
Wright was a 2012 attendee of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and Singapore Writers Festival.
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Alexis Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Alexis Wright celebrates birthday on November 25 of every year.