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Stephen Kinnane
Stephen Kinnane is a descendant through his mother’s mother of the Miriwoong people of the East Kimberley and was raised in Noongar country in the south-west of Western Australia. As a writer and researcher he has worked on a variety of community-based cultural heritage projects. He collaborated with Lauren Marsh and Alice Nannup on the book, When the Pelican Laughed (1992) and co-wrote and co-produced The Coolbaroo Club (1996), an ABC television documentary which was awarded the 1996 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Award for the Arts.
Awards
Short listed, Western Australian Premier’s Literary
Award, 1993
Winner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Award, 1996
Winner, AIATSIS Stanner Award, 2006
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Award, 2006
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Shadow Lines 2003
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
