Where was Doris Pilkington born?

Doris Pilkington Garimara was a legendary Australian author and nurse who was awarded the Red Ochre Award at the Australia Council for the Arts in 2008 and was also inducted into the Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame in 2022.

Doris Pilkington Garimara was one of the few Indigenous Australian writers and one of the few Indigenous Australians from Western Australia.

Where was Doris Pilkington born?

Doris Pilkington Garimara was born in Balfour Downs Station, Newman, in Western Australia.

Doris Pilkington Garimara was born in Balfour Downs Station, Newman, Australia, on July 1, 1937, and died in Perth, Western Australia, on April 10, 2014, at the age of 76 years, after suffering from ovarian cancer for many years prior to her death.

Doris Pilkington Garimara was the niece of an award-winning Aboriginal Australian woman called Daisy Kadibil who was a member of the Stolen Generations.

Doris Pilkington Garimara was formerly called Nugi Garimara.