Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman (born 1974) is an Aboriginal Australian novelist, essayist, and poet from Western Australia. She is known for her 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius, which won the Norma K Hemming Award, and the non-fiction work Lies, Damned Lies, which won the 2022 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.

Early life Claire G. Coleman was born in 1974. She is Noongar woman of the Wirlomin language group.

Career The manuscript of Coleman's debut novel, Terra Nullius, resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous writing fellowship. After publication, it won the Norma K Hemming Award.

She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference.

Coleman's essay, "After the Grog War", was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize, while another essay, "Hidden in Plain Sight", was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize.

Coleman has also written short fiction and poetry.

Awards and shortlisting 2017: Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel shortlist for Terra Nullius 2018: Horne Prize shortlist for "After the Grog War" 2018: MUD Literary Prize finalist for Terra Nullius 2018: Stella Prize shortlist for Terra Nullius 2019: Horne Prize shortlist for "Hidden in Plain Sight" 2019: Queensland Poetry Festival Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award for "Pelin" 2020: Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist for "That Wadjela Tongue" 2020: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize shortlist 2022: Queensland Literary Awards: University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award for Lies, Damned Lies

Works Novels

Short fiction

Poetry

Non-fiction