Benang

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author = Kim Scott
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country = Australia
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Fremantle Press, Australia
release_date = 1999
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 500 pp
isbn = ISBN 1863682406
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"Benang" (subtitled "From the Heart") is a 1999 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Kim Scott. This novel shared the award with Drylands by Thea Astley.

Reviewing the novel for "The Hindu", K. Kunhikrishnan wrote::"For writing his second novel Benang Kim Scott conducted research for five years, tracing his family history through welfare files and from a diversity of sources. He confirmed that the novel was "inspired by research into his family and my growing awareness of the context of that family history". The novel is hence an imaginative blend of fact and fiction and archival documentation to explore in historical and emotional terms the shameful history of the White treatment of Australian aboriginal people without didacticism and bitterness or moral propaganda. It makes compelling reading, as it is a moving depiction of cultural oppression and the resilience of the Nyoongar people from the time of first contact with the White colonial power." [ [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2003/04/06/stories/2003040600180300.htm "Literary Review: Identity narratives"] , "The Hindu", April 06, 2003]

Awards

*The Kate Challis RAKA Award, Creative Prose, 2001: winner
*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2000: joint winner
*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction Award, 1999: winner

Reviews

*"Access My Library" website [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6747141_ITM]

References

* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/australian/benang.html Middlemiss.org]