Winner of the Stella Prize

Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography

Winner of the Queensland Literary Award

Tracker is a collective memoir of the Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. He was a visionary who with irreverent humour told it like it is. Having known him for many years, Alexis Wright interviewed Tracker and those around him, weaving their stories together in a manner reminiscent of the oral history writing of Svetlana Alexievich.

'A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.' The Age (Australia)

From critically acclaimed and prize winning author Alexis Wright

About the Author
Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is one of Australia's most acclaimed and fearless writers. Wright is the only author to win Australia's two most prestigious prizes, the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker).

Reviews

'A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.' The Age (Australia)

'Wright builds, as much as anyone is able to in writing, a detailed portrait of a complex man, whose vision "to sculpt land, country and people into a brilliant future on a grand scale" is inevitably accompanied by an irrepressible humour and suspicion of authority.' The Guardian

'Tilmouth was a man who worked through conversation and yarn more than with paper and pen, and this is a book about the place of the story in Indigenous culture and politics as much as it is about Tracker himself.' The Monthly

'Wright enacts the complex relationship between self and community that a Western biography could not. There is a cumulative power in the repetitions, backtrackings and digressions the formula necessitates: a sinuous, elegant accommodation of selves. It is a book as epical in form and ambition as the life it describes.' The Australian

'Tracker, a book performed by a folk ensemble rather than a solo virtuoso, adds to her enduring non-fiction oeuvre that captures the unique ground-level realpolitik of Aboriginal Australia.' Australian Book Review

Awards
'A unique, majestic biography. It is one man's story told by many voices, almost operatic in scale . . . The book sings with insight and Tracker's unique humour.' Stella Prize citation and Magarey Medal for Biography and Queensland Literary Award.



Book Information
ISBN 9781916751125
Author Alexis Wright
Format Paperback
Imprint And Other Stories
Publisher And Other Stories