Doris Pilkington Garimara

Doris Pilkington ( b. 1937 as Nugi Garimara at Jigalong in Western Australia ) is an Aboriginal writer.

Life

She was born Balfour Downs Station is located in the east Pilbaras, about 60 kilometers from Jigalong. She was not even four years old when she, her younger sister Annabelle and her mother were moved to the Moore River Reserve. Her mother was able to escape later with Annabelle from the reserve, Doris, however, remained. Only at the age of 18 years, she managed to leave the reserve. She later graduated from a nurse's aide training at Royal Perth Hospital, married and became a mother of six children. After the children left the house, she enrolled in Perth for a journalism degree at Curtin University in.

For her first novel, Caprice: A Stockman 's Daughter, she was awarded the 1990 David Unaipon Award, a prize for unpublished writings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In 1996 she published the book Follow the rabbit- proof fence on the so-called Stolen Generation. The work belongs today in many schools of Australia to the standard reading.

It tells the story of the escape of three Nyungar girl from the Moore River Native Settlement in 1931 Such bearings were so-called half- castes established by the Australian government to "education": Children White - often migrant workers - with Aboriginal women. had witnessed. The grueling flight of three girls followed over weeks the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a protective fence against the rabbit plague, which extended across the State of Western Australia.

2002 Pilkington's novel by Phillip Noyce was for the film company Miramax under the international title Rabbit-Proof Fence filmed ( in Germany under the title Long Walk Home in theaters and released on DVD ).

Novels

• Caprice: A Stockman 's Daughter.
• Follow the rabbit- proof fence