Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral country is in the South Coast of Western Australia. Her debut novel Terra Nullius, published in Australia and the USA, written on a second-hand iPad in a caravan, has won the Norma K. Hemming Award and a black&write fellowship and has been Shortlisted for the Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award. She has written essays, short stories, reportage and poetry for publication on multiple national platforms and is a popular speaker and storyteller. The Old Lie, Hachette 2019, is her second novel.
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Claire G. Coleman
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