Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan (born January 18, 1951 in Perth , Western Australia ) is one of Australia's best-known Aboriginal artists and writers.
Life
Sally Morgan was born in Perth in 1951, the oldest of five children. For a long time she believed that her family came from India, but at the age of 15 she discovered that they had ancestors of the Palku from the Pilbara region. This discovery of her hidden roots and the subsequent search for her identity was the trigger for her first book My Place , which was published in 1987. In it she tells the story of her self-discovery through contact with her Aboriginal culture and history. More than half a million copies have been sold in Australia. The book was also published in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Her second book, Wanamurraganya , was published in 1989. It is the biography of her grandfather, Jack McPhee. She has also published five children's books.
In addition to her work as a writer, Sally Morgan has earned international recognition as an artist. Her works are exhibited in numerous private and public collections in Australia and the United States, including the Australian National Gallery .
Sally Morgan has won many awards and honors. As part of the 1993 Human Rights Declaration celebrations , her print Outback was selected as one of thirty paintings and sculptures by international art historians to represent an item of the Declaration on a postage stamp.
Nevertheless, My Place remains her most influential work, not only because of its great popularity, but also because it has given other authors - especially those with indigenous roots - a new role model.
Today Sally Morgan is Director of the Center for Indigenous History and Arts at the University of Western Australia .
Literary work
- My Place , 1987
- Wanamurraganya 1989
literature
- Haag, Oliver: Community and Identity in the Literature of Australian Aborigines. An analysis of Sally Morgan's 'My Place', Munich 2009.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sally Morgan in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Sally |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milroy, Sally Jane (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian artist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perth |