Дорис Пилкингтон — об авторе
- Родилась: 1 июля 1937 г. , Balfour Downs Station, Newman, Australia
- Умерла: 10 апреля 2014 г. , Perth, Western Australia
Биография — Дорис Пилкингтон
Doris Pilkington Garimara, (Nugi Garimara), Aboriginal Novelist, was born on Balfour Downs station, 60 kilometres northwest of Jigalong in the Pilbara district, Western Australia. Aged four she was forcibly removed with her mother to the Moore River settlement, 115 kilometres north of Perth. Doris attended the settlement school before moving to Perth, where she began training as a nursing aide at the Royal Perth hospital. She later moved to Geraldton and, after raising her children, completed her secondary education. She returned to Perth to study journalism at Curtin University.
During a holiday at Jigalong, Pilkington discovered that her mother, Molly Kelly, was sent from Jigalong to the…
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Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002
The soundtrack to the film, called Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is by Peter Gabriel. British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has a long connection with Australia, was executive producer of the film, selling it internationally through his sales arm, HanWay Films. In 2005 the British Film Institute included it in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
