Articles by Marie Munkara
Of Rembarranga, Tiwi and Chinese descent Marie was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first Novel “Every Secret thing” (University of Queensland Press) won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the NT Book of the Year in 2010. Her two childrens books “Rusty Brown” and “Rusty and Jojo” (Laguna Bay Oxford Press) were launched in January 2014 and her second novel “A Most Peculiar Act” (Magabala) in May 2014. Marie has recently completed her memoir (Penguin / Random House) and is currently working on a TV mini-series. (Image Credit Panos Couros)