Doris Pilkington Garimara, best known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. She was born on July 1, 1937 and died on 10 April 2014. She was 76 years.
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She died in Perth, Western Australia of ovarian cancer.
She was posthumously inducted into the Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame in 2022.
Doris Pilkington Garimara Books
Pilkington wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a story about the stolen generation, and based on three Aboriginal girls.
Among the girls was 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.
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Doris also authored: Under the Wintamarra Tree, Caprice, a Stockman’s Daughter and Home to Mother.
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Doris Pilkington Garimara Net Worth At Death
In May 2008, she was awarded the $50,000 Red Ochre Award which is made to an indigenous artist for their outstanding, lifelong contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts at home and abroad.
At time of death, she had an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Doris Pilkington Garimara Height
What was Doris Pilkington height? How tall was Doris Pilkington?
Pilkington’s exact height is not known but she was of average height.
Doris Pilkington Garimara Family
Pilkington’s mother is Molly Craig.
She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mission when she was three and a half years old.
She has a younger sister, Annabelle.
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