Charmaine Papertalk Green | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Eradu, near Geraldton, Western Australia |
Occupation | Poet, visual and installation artist |
Language | English, Badimaya and Wajarri |
Notable works | Nganajungu Yagu |
Notable awards | Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, 2020 Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame, 2023 |
Charmaine Papertalk Green (born 1962) is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine Green she works as a visual and installation artist.
Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia.[1]
On International Women's Day in 2023, Green was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame.[2]
A number of her poems were included in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing.[3]
Her work was included in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (3rd edition),[4] while her 2019 poetry collection, Nganajungu Yagu, won the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.[5][6] Green won the 2020 ALS Gold Medal for Nganajungu Yagu[7] and was shortlisted in 2019 for False Claims of Colonial Thieves.[8] In the 2020 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, she was shortlisted for Nganajungu Yagu.[9]
Her 2018 book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-written with John Kinsella, was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[10] In his 2018 review, Robert Wood wrote: "As a critique of colonial Australia and a historical document, False Claims of Colonial Thieves has a certain weight and importance".[11] She and Kinsella were interviewed by Claire Nichols for The Book Show on ABC Radio National.[12]
In 2023 Green won the Red Room Poetry Fellowship, valued at $5,000 plus a two-week residency at Bundanon. Her nominated work is Jugarnu Wangga Migamanmanha (Older woman making talk).[13] With co-author John Kinsella, she was shortlisted for the 2023 ALS Gold Medal for ART.[14]
Green won the poster competition at the NAIDOC Awards in 2006.[8] She is represented by Yamaji Art Centre, Geraldton.