Geraldton author wins prestigious prize

Yamaji author Charmaine Papertalk-Green has won the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020 poetry category for her book Nganajungu Yagu.

Charmaine Green is completing her PhD with Edith Cowan University and is also a researcher at the WA Centre for Rural Health.

Nganajungu Yagu is published by Cordite Books.

Ms Papertalk-Green said it was an honour to be the only Western Australian writer at the presentation.

Her previous book False Claims of Colonial Thieves, co-authored with John Kinsella, is short listed for this year’s John Bray Poetry Award, a category of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

The winners are to be announced on February 29.