AustLit

‘As far as is known, the first Aboriginal writer to have a book published in Australia was David Unaipon, whose Native Legends appeared in Adelaide about 1929. A national award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers is administered annually, in his honour, by the University of Queensland Press (UQP) and funded by the state government. UQP also publishes in book form the winning entry, regardless of genre. After David Unaipon, it was several decades before the next book by an Indigenous writer appeared. We Are Going, a collection of poems by Kath Walker, later known as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, was published by Jacaranda Press in 1964.’ (Introduction 150)