‘How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?’ His ability to make connections and communicate. It’s the telling of Tracker’s story that held my attention: the different memories people had, the recounting of anecdotes, Tracker’s drive, Tracker’s vision. This book contains some of what he set out to achieve, the why and the how of it, from a number of different perspectives. When he returned home, he set about transforming the world of Aboriginal politics. He was taken from his family as a child and, with two of his brothers, was brought up in a mission on Croker Island. Tracker Tilmouth was born in central Australia in 1954. I started reading the book knowing a little about Tracker Tilmouth, I finished the book wanting to know more.
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It’s a life recounted in a series of stories, of reminiscences. Instead Alexis Wright has composed a collective memoir, drawing on interviews with Tracker as well as with family, friends and colleagues. ‘Tracker’ is a biography of Tracker Tilmouth (1954-2015). ‘A Western-style biography would never do for Tracker.’ In 2007 Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, and the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year.īiographical information from the Australia Council website. An epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come, the novel tells of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance. Her latest novel, Carpentaria was published by Giramondo in 2006. The novel has been translated into French.Īlexis has published award-winning short stories and her other books are the anthology Take Power (Jukurrpa Books, l998), celebrating 20 years of land rights in Central Australia and Grog War (Magabala,1997), an examination of the alcohol restrictions in Tennant Creek. Her acclaimed first novel Plains of Promise was published in 1997 by University of Queensland Press and was shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and the NSW Premier's Awards. His memoir has been composed by Wright from interviews with Tilmouth himself, as well as with his family, friends, and colleagues, weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man.Īlexis Wright is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. He was a visionary and a projector of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his anecdotes. He worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth returned home to transform the world of Aboriginal politics.
Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, Tracker, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker, and entrepreneur who died in Darwin in 2015. A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia’s most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich.
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