Doris Pilkington

Emerging from the remote Balfour Downs Station near Jigalong in Western Australia, she spent her early years in the Moore River mission after being removed from her mother and later pursued nursing training to escape the settlement. Her literary breakthrough arrived with the 1991 novel Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter, which earned the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for unpublished Indigenous w… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources