Kim Scott

Caterina Colomba (Università del Salento)

Ed. by Susan Kossew, Monash University, Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 9.1.1: Australian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Nicole Kennedy (University of Newcastle), Susan Kossew (Monash University), Fiannuala Morgan (University of Melbourne)

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Born 1957
Activity 1993-ongoing

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Born in Australia
Active in Australia

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Kim Scott is a celebrated multi-award winning Australian Aboriginal writer. The son of a white mother and an Aboriginal father, Scott is a Wirlomin Noongar, whose traditional lands stretched between Albany and Esperance on the southern coast of Western Australia. In the author’s biography accompanying the 25th anniversary edition of his 1999 novel

Benang: From the Heart

, he presents himself as “a descendant of people living along the south coast of Western Australia prior to colonization, and […] proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar” (

Benang

, 2024).

Scott grew up in Albany but was largely isolated from his extended Noongar family and disconnected from his Indigenous culture. When his father died before reaching the age of forty, Scott was left with uncertainty

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Citation: Colomba, Caterina. "Kim Scott". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12077, accessed 29 March 2025.]