Purple Threads: First Nations Classics - Softcover

Leane, Jeanine; Araluen, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702266027 ISBN 13: 9780702266027

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 2023

Synopsis

Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and her nights dozing by the fire, listening to the big women yarn about life over endless cups of tea.

 

It is a life of freedom, protection and love. But as Sunny grows she must face the challenge of being seen as different, and of having a mother whose visits are as unpredictable as the rain.

 

Based on Jeanine Leane's own childhood, these funny, endearing and thought-provoking stories offer a snapshot of a unique Australian upbringing.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award. She has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and has won the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Poetry twice. She has been the recipient of a Red Room Poetry Fellowship, two Australian Research Council Fellowships; in 2021 she was the recipient of the University of Sydney's School of Literature Art and Media (SLAM) Poetry Prize; and runner up in the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest. Jeanine teaches Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702266027
• ISBN 13: 9780702266027
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192