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Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist. Benang (1999) was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia’s premier literary prize, among many others. His work has been translated and published in China, India, Holland, Japan and France.

Kim was awarded a Centenary Medal and in 2012 was inaugural Western Australian of the Year. He is a member of the West Australian Writers Hall of Fame and in 2022 was declared a State Cultural Treasure. Kim is currently employed as Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.

Cass Lynch is a Koreng Wudjari Noongar woman and is descended from the families of Ravensthorpe in the Great Southern region. She is a writer and researcher and her PhD focused on Noongar stories that reference climate change. She speaks and writes in the Noongar language and is a committee member for Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories. She is currently a Research Fellow at Curtin University where she works with Professor Kim Scott and her Wirlomin family on the revitalisation of south coast Noongar songs and stories. Her short fiction and poetry is taught at universities and high schools in Western Australia and Victoria.

The Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Incorporated is an association with aims of reclaiming, supporting, promoting and maintaining Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage. They work to reclaim Wirlomin stories and dialect, in support of the maintenance of Noongar language, and to share them with Noongar families and communities as part of a process to claim, control and enhance Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage.

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