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Sally Morgan
Author, Scriptwriter and Artist
Sally Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1951 and is a descendant of the Palku people of the Pilbara. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia in 1974. She also has post-graduate diplomas from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) in Counselling Psychology and Computing and Library Studies. She is a Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at the University of Western Australia and lives in Perth. Sally is an award winning and best selling author and is a highly regarded visual artist with works in numerous private and public collections both in Australia and North America.
Recently, Sally has been working collaboratively with her three children Ambelin, Blaze and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, writing stories for children. Curly and The Fent was published by Random House Australia in July 2008. This is the first book in a new series by the four authors which is full of imagination, mischief and adventure, perfect for boys aged 7 to 9. The four authors are presently working on other writing projects both together and independently.
Adult Books
Sally has published two books for adults: My Place, 1987 Fremantle Arts Centre Press, a powerful autobiography of three generations, and Wanamurraganya: The Story of Jack McPhee, 1989 Fremantle Arts Centre Press, a biography of her grandfather.
The Art of Sally Morgan, the first published collection of her work, was published by Penguin in 1996.
Picture Story Books
Her children’s picture story books include Little Piggies (illustrated by Paul Morgan, 1991 Fremantle Arts Centre Press) and Hurry Up Oscar (illustrated by Bettina Guthridge, 1993 Penguin). Recently she completed a series of three children’s books illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft and published by Fremantle Arts Press: Just a Little Brown Dog, Dan’s Grampa and In Your Dreams. The Flying Emu, a collection of short stories which feature some of Sally’s illustrations, was first published by Penguin in hardback in 1992. It has since been released in paperback.
Plays
Sally’s play Sistergirl, produced by Black Swan Theatre, was first performed in Perth at the Festival of Perth 1992 and since then has toured to Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra, Darwin, country Western Australia centres and Melbourne. There have been two adaptations for theatre of stories in Flying Emu: Shark Island Stories, adaptation by Mary Morris for the Griffin Theatre, first performed at the 1995 Sydney Festival. The Flying Emu, adaptation by Mary Sutherland as a piece of shadow puppet theatre for the Polyglot Puppet Theatre, was first performed in Melbourne April 1995.
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