Kim Scott

Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Noongar heritage whose fiction has been central to the development of contemporary Indigenous Australian literature. He is the first Indigenous Australian to win the Miles Franklin Award, winning it twice — for Benang in 2000 and That Deadman Dance in 2011. Benang: From the Heart is a powerful, formally inventive novel that traces a family's history through the devastating policies of assimilation in Western Australia. Drawing on historical records, oral tradition, and lyrical imagination, the novel exposes the cruelty of government programs that attempted to 'breed out' Aboriginality. Scott's writing combines literary experimentation with deep cultural knowledge and emotional force. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers essential Australian fiction that confronts the legacy of colonialism with poetic power and unflinching honesty.