Chloe Hooper
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Chloe Hooper (born 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 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same 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
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