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Leni Shilton Leni Shilton i(A80384 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Leni Shilton has lived and worked in Central Australia since 1985. She has worked as a remote-area nurse and a health educator, has taught creative writing, and has taught at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre. She has studied a Master of Letters in Creative Writing and teaching at Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education.' (https://borderlands.cdu.edu.au/this-map-has-no-borders/)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 shortlisted Northern Territory Literary Awards — NT Writers Centre Poetry Award for brown goshawk
2017 longlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2016 winner Northern Territory Literary Awards — NT Writers Centre Poetry Award for ‘Into the West – Bertha Strehlow’s journey to Piltadi’
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018 12947727 2018 selected work poetry

'Leni Shilton offers us a woman’s exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband’s achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the Great Sandy Desert over many years of endurance. In this volume, Leni Shilton restores to her a voice.'  (Publication summary)
2020 winner Territory Read Book of the Year — Fiction
If I Speak from under the Earth i "I speak from under the earth, the desert a red beast over me. History is layers of", 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Underneath : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2015 2015; (p. 80)
2015 longlisted The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
Josh's Story 2008 single work short story
— Appears in: Northern Territory Literary Awards 2008 2008; (p. 102-109)
2008 finalist Northern Territory Literary Awards — Arafura Short Story Awards
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