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Winner of the Stella Prize Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography Winner of the Queensland Literary Award Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 A larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker Tilmouth was whip-smart, irreverent, startling, and deadly serious, famous for rattling the chains of Australian political life wherever he went. One day he asked a novelist-friend for help with his memoirs. Wright agreed, though she knew it would take a whole community to do his life justice. Thousands of interview hours later, the result was Tracker: a groundbreaking piece of creative oral history, a testament to the power of storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life, and a living monument to a legendary warrior of conscience. ‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.’ The Age (Australia)
Winner of the Stella Prize
Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography
Winner of the Queensland Literary Award
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
A larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker Tilmouth was whip-smart, irreverent, startling, and deadly serious, famous for rattling the chains of Australian political life wherever he went. One day he asked a novelist-friend for help with his memoirs. Wright agreed, though she knew it would take a whole community to do his life justice. Thousands of interview hours later, the result was Tracker: a groundbreaking piece of creative oral history, a testament to the power of storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life, and a living monument to a legendary warrior of conscience.
‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.’ The Age (Australia)