Kim Scott
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Kim Scott (born 1957) is an Australian writer of an Aboriginal ancestry. He is a descendant of Nyoongar people.
Kim was born in Perth in 1957 and he is the eldest of four siblings with a white mother and an aboriginal father.
He began written for publication shortly after he became a secondary school teacher of English. He has written two novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies.
His first novel, True Country, was published in 1993 and will appear in a French translation in 2005. His second novel, Benang, won the WA Premiers Literary Award 1999, the Miles Franklin Award 2000, and the RAKA Kate Challis Award 2001. Kim was the first indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award for Benang, which has since been published in translation in France and the Netherlands.
His new book Kayang and Me, a collaboration with Nyoongar elder, Hazel Brown, is published in May 2005. The work is a monumental oral-based history of the author’s family, the south coast Nyoongar people of Western Australia.
Kim lives in Coolbellup, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, with his wife and two children.
