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Coleman delivering the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, at the Australian Society of Archivists' 2018 annual conference, in Perth, Western Australia
Born	1974
Occupation	Author Poet
Notable work	Terra Nullius, The Old Lie

Claire G. Coleman (born 1974) is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer and poet, whose 2017 debut novel, Terra Nullius won the Norma K Hemming Award. The first draft of the book resulted in Coleman being awarded the State Library of Queensland's 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship.

She gave the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at the 2018 Australian Society of Archivists conference. Coleman's essay, After the Grog War, was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize, while another essay, Hidden in Plain Sight, was shortlisted for the 2019 Horne Prize.

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2017 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel shortlist for Terra Nullius
2018 Horne Prize shortlist for "After the Grog War"
2018 MUD Literary Prize finalist for Terra Nullius
2018 Stella Prize shortlist for Terra Nullius
2019 Horne Prize shortlist for "Hidden in Plain Sight"
2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Debut shortlist for Terra Nullius
2019 Queensland Poetry Festival Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award for "Pelin"
2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist for "That Wadjela Tongue"
2020 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize shortlist
2022 Queensland Literary Awards The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award for Lies, Damned Lies

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