Kim Scott named a State Cultural Treasure
Congratulations to Australian writer Kim Scott who has received a prestigious 2022 State Cultural Treasures Award. These awards celebrate and honour senior Western Australian artists and organisations who have made outstanding lifelong contributions to their art form and community. Only 38 people have ever received one of these awards, which were established in 1998 (and known as State Living Treasures Awards) and subsequently awarded in 2004 and 2015. Scott is a descendant of the Wirlomin Noongar people and wrote his first novel, ‘True Country‘ while he was teaching in Kalumburu, the northernmost settlement in Western Australia, with his wife. His second novel, ‘Benang: From the Heart’, won the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, making him the first Aboriginal author to win it. He won a second Miles Franklin Literary Award with ‘That Deadman Dance’. This novel also earned…
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Congratulations to Australian writer Kim Scott who has received a prestigious 2022 State Cultural Treasures Award.
These awards celebrate and honour senior Western Australian artists and organisations who have made outstanding lifelong contributions to their art form and community.
Only 38 people have ever received one of these awards, which were established in 1998 (and known as State Living Treasures Awards) and subsequently awarded in 2004 and 2015.
Scott is a descendant of the Wirlomin Noongar people and wrote his first novel, ‘True Country‘ while he was teaching in Kalumburu, the northernmost settlement in Western Australia, with his wife.
His second novel, ‘Benang: From the Heart’, won the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, making him the first Aboriginal author to win it.
He won a second Miles Franklin Literary Award with ‘That Deadman Dance’. This novel also earned…
