Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper
Born	Chloe Melisande Hooper 26 October 1973 Melbourne, Australia
Occupation	Novelist, journalist
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Education	Lauriston Girls' School
Alma mater	University of Melbourne Columbia University
Years active	2002–present

Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 26 October 1973) is an Australian author.

Her 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. 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. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case.

Books

• A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008)^[1] (released as The Tall Man:The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
• The Engagement (2012)

Awards

• 2002 Orange Prize. Shortlisted for (A Child's Book of True Crime)^[2]
• 2006 Walkley Award. Won for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.
• 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Overall prize winner, and in Non-Fiction category, for Tall Man
• 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for the Tall Man
• 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• 2009 Indie Book Awards. Shortlisted for Tall Man^[3]

References

1. "The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper". Official website. Penguin Group (Australia). Retrieved 28 May 2013.
2. Chloe Hooper @ Fantastic Fiction
3. Indie bookshops have given the nod to Jasper Jones

Websites

• 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 on ABC Fora
• 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.