Chloe Hooper

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Chloe Hooper’s 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. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island, an Aboriginal community off the north east coast of Australia. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the Palm Island case.

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[edit] Books

  • A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
  • The Tall Man (2008)

[edit] Awards

  • Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize (A Child's Book of True Crime)[1]
  • Won the 2006 Walkley Award for her articles in [[The Monthly]] on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/chloe-hooper/ Reference for the entire present article.

[edit] Websites

  • The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island [1]