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