Doris Pilkington
Doris Pilkington (* 1937 as Nugi Garimara in Balfour Downs Station , Western Australia ; † 10. April 2014 in Perth ) was an Aborigine - writer .
Life
Her birthplace Balfour Downs Station is in the east of Pilbara , about 60 kilometers from Jigalong . She was not yet four years old when she, her younger sister, Annabelle and her mother in the Moore River - Reserve resettled were. Her mother was later able to flee the reservation with Annabelle, while Doris stayed behind. It was only at the age of 18 that she managed to leave the reserve. She later completed an auxiliary nurse training at the Royal Perth Hospital , married, and had six children. After the kids left home, she enrolled in Perth to study journalism at Curtin University .
For her first novel, Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter , she received the 1990 David Unaipon Award , a prize for unpublished writings by Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders . In 1996 she published the book Follow the rabbit-proof fence about the so-called Stolen Generation . The work is now standard reading in many schools in Australia.
It tells the story of the flight of three Nyungar girls from the Moore River Native Settlement in 1931. Such camps had been set up by the Australian government to “raise” so-called half-castes : children, whites - often migrant workers - with Aboriginal women had conceived.
The grueling escape of the three girls followed for weeks the Rabbit-Proof Fence , a protective fence against the rabbit plague that stretched across the state of Western Australia.
In 2002, Pilkington's novel was filmed by Phillip Noyce for the Miramax film company under the international title Rabbit-Proof Fence (in Germany under the title Long Walk Home in cinemas and on DVD).
She died of ovarian cancer in Perth on April 10, 2014 at the age of 76 .
Novels
- Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter.
- Follow the rabbit-proof fence
literature
- Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez: Place of Resistance or Survival Strategy? On the paradox of the emancipatory politics of subjects in the diaspora. In: jour fixe initiative berlin (ed.): Fluchtlinien des Exils. Unrast-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89771-431-0
- Eva-Maria Burghardt: Cinematic representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema.
Web links
- Literature by and about Doris Pilkington in the catalog of the German National Library
- Doris Pilkington in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article on the presentation of the Intermix Positive Contribution Award to the author
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moore River Native Settlement ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.reiselabor.de
- ↑ Daisy Dumas: Doris Pilkington Garimara, author of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, dead at 76. In: The Sydney Morning Herald of April 11, 2014 (English, accessed April 13, 2014).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilkington, Doris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garimara, Nugi (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian indigenous writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Balfour Downs Station |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2014 |
| Place of death | Perth |