Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist. Benang was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance also won Australia's premier literary prize, among many others. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story Project (www.wirlomin.com.au), which has published a number of bilingual picture books. A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott deals with aspects of his career in education and literature. He received an Australian Centenary Medal and was 2012 West Australian of the Year. Kim is currently Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.
Winner of the NSW Premier's Award Book of the Year 2018
Winner of the NSW Premier's Indigenous Writer's Prize 2018
Winner of the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2018
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literacy Award for Indigenous
Writing 2019Praise for Taboo "In this potent, ghostly book, Scott,
part of the Noongar people of Western Australia, tells what happens
when a group of Noongar return to the site of a massacre which
followed the killing of a white man for kidnapping a black woman.
The book wrestles with the haunt of history, and poetry lives on
each page. 'Now his own house was haunted, and he was glad.' In the
taboo farmland, the group reckon with language and connection, and
what reconciling with the past means for the present. They face the
way the history and its sins live on, and how rebirth demands
destruction. 'Death is only one part of a story that is forever
beginning, ' Scott writes."-- Nina McLaughlin, Boston Globe"Deeply
acclaimed upon its initial release in Australia, Kim Scott's novel
Taboofollows a group of characters revisiting the site of several
acts of historical violence. In doing so, Scott charts the
complexities of pain, forgiveness, and the sins of the past--often
in harrowing ways."-- Vol. 1, Brooklyn"If Benang was the great
novel of the assimilation system, and That Deadman Dance redefined
the frontier novel in Australian writing, Taboo makes a strong case
to be the novel that will help clarify--in the way that only
literature can--what reconciliation might mean" --Australian Book
Review"Scott's book is stunning--haunted and powerful. . . .
Verdict: Must Read." --Herald Sun"Remarkable." --Stephen Romei,
Weekend Australian"Stunning prose." --Saturday Paper"This is a
complex, thoughtful, and exceptionally generous offering by a
master storyteller at the top of his game." --The
Guardian"Undaunted, and daring as ever Scott goes back to his
ancestral Noongar country in Western Australia's Great Southern
region; back in time as well to killings (or a massacre, the point
is contested) of whites and Aborigines there in 1880 . . . Taboo
never becomes a revenge story, whether for distant or recent wrongs
. . . The politics of Taboo--not to presume or simplify too
much--are quietist, rather than radical. Ambitious, unsentimental
[and] morally challenging." --Sydney Morning Herald"Scott is one of
the most thoughtful, exciting and powerful storytellers of this
continent today, with great courage and formidable narrative
prowess--and Taboo is his most daring novel yet." --Sydney Review
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