Alexis Wright

(Australia, 1950), is an activist and author of the internationally successful, award-winning novels Plains of Promise (1997), Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013). She also published three works of non-fiction: Grog War (1997), a study of how the Aboriginal community self-organizes against alcohol abuse; Take Power Like This Old Man Here (1998), an oral history of the Aboriginal land-rights battle; and Tracker (2017), a collective storytelling tribute to Tracker Tilmouth, advocate and activist for the legal and economic advancement of Aboriginal people. Wright is a member of the Waanyi Nation in the highlands of the North Australian Gulf of Carpentaria, which declared independence in 2020.