Larissa is the author of three novels- Home, which won the 2002
David Unaipon Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize
for Best First Book; Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier's
Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and After Story. She has
published numerous books on Indigenous legal issues; her most
recent non-fiction book is Finding Eliza- Power and Colonial
Storytelling. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year
award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. Larissa wrote and
directed the feature films, After the Apology and Innocence
Betrayed and has written and produced several short films. In 2018
she won the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in
a Documentary Feature and in 2020 the AACTA for Best Direction in
Nonfiction Television. She is the host of Speaking Out on ABC radio
and is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the
University of Technology Sydney.
After Story has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary
Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the ABA
Booksellers' Choice Awards, and longlisted for the Indie Book
Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Miles Franklin
Literary Award.
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