Where does Doris Pilkington Garimara live?

Doris Pilkington Garimara, famously known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. She was born on 1 July 1937 and died of ovarian cancer on 10 April 2014. She was 76 years.

Doris was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong.

She lived in Perth, Western Australia where she died of cancer.

Born Nugi Garimara, she was ‘renamed’ Doris by Mary Dunnet, her mother’s (Molly Craig) employer at the station who regarded Nugi as “a stupid name”.

When she was three and a half years old, she was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mission.

She has a younger sister, Annabelle, who was also taken and was told she was an orphan, and over the years distanced herself from her Aboriginal heritage.

Doris was reunited with her mother 21 years later.

She rose to fame after writing Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a story about the stolen generation.

The story was based on three Aboriginal girls, which included her mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,414 km (1,500 miles) for nine weeks to return to their family.

She was posthumously inducted into the Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame in 2022, 8 years after her passing.