Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper
Born	1973
Occupation	Author

Chloe Hooper (1973) is an Australian author. 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. 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 2004 Palm Island death in custody case.

Books

• A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008)^[1] (released as The Tall Man:The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
• The Engagement (2012)

Awards

• 2002 Orange Prize. Shortlisted for (A Child's Book of True Crime)^[2]
• 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 Awards, Overall prize winner, and in Non-Fiction category, for Tall Man
• 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction in the for Tall Man
• 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• 2009 Indie Book Awards. Shortlisted for Tall Man^[3]

References

Websites

• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
• Items by Chloe Hooper in The Monthly
• Chloe Hooper discusses her book 'The Tall Man' at the Sydney Writers Festival video on ABC Fora
• Emily Potter 'Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime ' JASAL 3 (2004)