Chloe Hooper
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Chloe Hooper | |
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| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Education | Lauriston Girls' School |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne Columbia University |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Chloe Hooper is an Australian author. She is known for her 2008 non-fiction work, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Early life and education
[edit]Chloe Hooper was born in Melbourne, Victoria.[citation needed]
She attended Lauriston Girls' School, and then the University of Melbourne and Columbia University.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Hooper's first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book.[citation needed]
In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case.[citation needed] The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case.[1]
Her 2018 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.[citation needed]
Awards and recognition
[edit]Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.[2]
- Shortlisted 2002 Orange Prize. for (A Child's Book of True Crime)[3]
- Winner 2006 Walkley Award. for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.
- Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Award for Non-Fiction category, for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Book of the Year, for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for General Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 John Button Prize for Writing for Young Adults for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Non-Fiction Book Award for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Indie Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Ned Kelly Awards for Best True Crime for The Tall Man[1]
- Winner 2009 Davitt Awards for Best True Crime for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2008 Human Rights Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2008 Walkley Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for Book of the Year for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2009 Queensland Premier's Award for Advancing Public Debate for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2009 Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man[1]
- Shortlisted, 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction for The Arsonist[4]
- Longlisted, 2019 Stella Prize[5]
- Shortlisted 2023 National Biography Award for Bedtime Story[6]
- Winner, 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards General Nonfiction Book of the Year for The Mushroom Tapes (shared with co-authors Helen Garner and Sarah Krasnostein)[7][8]
- Shortlisted, 2026 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-Fiction[9]
Books
[edit]- A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008)[10] (released as Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
- The Engagement (2012)
- The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (2018)[11]
- Bedtime Story (2022)
- The Mushroom Tapes (2025; with Helen Garner and Sarah Krasnostein)[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "The Tall Man". Copyright Agency Reading Australia. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ↑ "Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation". Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ Chloe Hooper @ Fantastic Fiction
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ↑ "The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire". The Stella Prize 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ "National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ↑ "Sworder wins ABIA Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 21 May 2026. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 Story, Hannah (21 May 2026). "The Mushroom Tapes, Mad Mabel triumph at Australian Book Industry Awards". ABC News. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ ""The Shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2026: Non-Fiction"". ArtsHub. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ↑ "The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper". Official website. Penguin Group (Australia). Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ↑ Hooper, Chloe. "The Arsonist". Seven Stories Press. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
External links
[edit]- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
- Items by Chloe Hooper in The Monthly
- Chloe Hooper discusses her book The Tall Man at the Sydney Writers Festival (video)
- Potter, Emily (2004). "Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime". JASAL. 3: 95–102. ISSN 1447-8986.
Categories:
- Living people
- Ned Kelly Award winners
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century Australian women novelists
- Walkley Award winners
- University of Melbourne alumni
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- 21st-century Australian non-fiction writers
- Australian non-fiction crime writers
- Australian crime fiction writers
- Davitt Award winners
- People educated at Lauriston Girls' School