Education
Columbia University School of the Arts.
(When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Abori...)
When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer, he was dead within forty-five minutes of being locked up. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but the pathologist likened his injuries to those received in a plane crash. The main suspect was the handsome, charismatic Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, an experienced cop with decorations for his work. In following Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most remote parts of Australia, Chloe Hooper explores Aboriginal myths and history and uncovers buried secrets of white mischief. Atmospheric, gritty and original, The Tall Man takes readers to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge and justice.
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Columbia University School of the Arts.
Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. The Tall Manitoba: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case.
2002 Orange Prize. Shortlisted for (A Child"s Book of True Crime) 2006 Walkley Award. Won for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island. 2008 Western Australian Premier"s Book, Overall prize winner, and in Non-Fiction category, for Tall Manitoba 2009 New South Wales Premier"s Literary Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction in the for Tall Manitoba 2009 Victorian Premier"s Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Manitoba 2009 Indie Book Shortlisted for Tall Manitoba
(When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Abori...)
