Claire G. Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew up in a Forestry's settlement in the middle of a tree plantation, where her dad worked, not far out of Perth. She wrote her Stella Prize finalist black&write! fellowship-winning debut novel Terra Nullius while travelling around Australia in a caravan.
Reading Women Award 2018 Shortlist
Dublin Literary Award Nominee
"A striking debut from a new Australian Aboriginal voice. The
speculative-fiction lens reframes European invasion, shifting and
unsettling the reader's perspective. The devastation of
colonisation and displacement is explored with originality,
compassion and insight." -- State Library of Queensland Dublin
Literary Award Nomination "Coleman's skillful use of science
fiction elements enhances her story, causing readers to recognize
the alien as something all too familiar. Terra Nullius possesses a
universal impact and stands as one of the best novels addressing
colonialism that we've ever read." -- Reading Women "Fantastic. . .
. Unbelievable." -- Liberty Hardy, Book Riot "Demonstrates
Coleman's promise as a creative storyteller. VERDICT Highly
recommended." -- Library Journal (Starred Review) "Coleman stuns
with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonization. . . .
Coleman universalizes the experiences of invaded indigenous
populations in a way that has seldom been achieved. Artfully
combining elements of literary, historical, and speculative
fiction, this allegorical novel is surprising and unforgettable."
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Australian natives living
under the oppressive brutality of forced colonization struggle to
survive, let alone fight back. It's little wonder that Australian
Aboriginal writer Coleman has been praised and nominated for awards
in her own country for her thoughtfully woke debut novel about an
invasion of Australia by punishing settlers and the subsequent
resistance by a native people. . . . a powerful myth comes to life
before readers' eyes." -- Kirkus Reviews "Coleman's timely debut is
testimony to the power of an old story seen afresh through new
eyes." -- Adelaide Advertiser "Claire G. Coleman's Terra Nulllius
is an arresting and original novel that addresses the legacy of
Australia's violent colonial history. . . . Coleman's punchy prose
is insistent throughout, its energy unflagging. Terra Nullius is a
novel for our times, one whose tone is as impassioned as its
message is necessary." -- Stella Prize Judges' Report "Noongar
writer Claire Coleman's debut novel, Terra Nullius, envisions a
continent disturbingly familiar and worryingly futuristic. . . . It
is a future beyond the boundaries of familiar 21st-century
post-colonial settler discourse on reconciliation and 'settlement'
in a nation founded on the dispossession of Aboriginal lands, and
ongoing 'unfinished business' with the first people." -- Sydney
Morning Herald "A powerful, sobering piece of writing that makes us
face an Australia we try to forget, but should always remember." --
Adelaide Review "A speculative sci-fi struggle meaningfully
grounded in Coleman's own Indigenous culture, Terra Nullius offers
something new -- a skilfully constructed pastiche of colonisation,
resistance and apocalyptic chaos with parallels that sit
unsettlingly close to home." -- Big Issue Australia "Coleman makes
a significant contribution to the emerging body of Aboriginal
writers such as Ellen van Neerven and Alexis Wright who write
spectral and speculative fiction to critique the vicious fiction of
the colonial archive." -- Canberra Times "Witty, weird, moving and
original." -- Weekend Australian "Set in an Australia that is
simultaneously recognisable and bleakly foreign, Coleman's work of
speculative fiction tells a story of colonisation and displacement
that is both devastating and all too familiar. In our politically
tumultuous time, the novel's themes of racism, inherent humanity
and freedom are particularly poignant." -- Books + Publishing
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