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Gracie Greene Gracie Greene i(A48843 works by)
Born: Established: 1949 Billiluna, Central desert areas, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Gracie Greene started her schooling at Balgo Mission. By the time she was six or seven she was put into the dormitory where the St John of Gods nuns cared for her. While at the dormitory she learned cooking and housekeeping. Gracie also does traditional artwork.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja Tjarany : Tjaranykura Tjukurrpa Ngaanpa Kalkinpa Wangka Tjukurrtjanu; Tjarany : Roughtail Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 Z843149 1990 selected work children's fiction children's Indigenous story

'Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia’s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kukatja, the book includes magnificent paintings, maps, kinship diagrams, exercises and language notes. Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Award.'
1993 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
1993 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Childrens Book Award
1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards — Book of the Year
1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards — Children's Book Award
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