Johnson, Colin

Johnson, Colin

▪ Australian author
Aboriginal name  Mudrooroo,  also called  Mudrooroo Narogin  or  Mudrooroo Nyoongah 
born 1939, Beverley, W.Aus., Austl.

      Australian Aboriginal novelist and poet who depicted the struggles of modern Aboriginals to adapt to life in a society dominated by whites.

      Johnson, who was part Aboriginal, was educated in a Roman Catholic orphanage in Australia. He traveled widely, including a six-year stay in India, where he lived for some time as a Buddhist monk. From 1982 he was writer in residence at Murdoch University, Perth, W.Aus.

      Johnson's first novel, Wild Cat Falling (1965), is the story of a young half-Aboriginal outcast who is searching for his identity. It was the first Australian novel by someone of Aboriginal descent. The protagonist of Long Live Sandawara (1979) attempts to establish his own resistance movement in the slums of Perth. Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (1983) concerns the annihilation of the Tasmanian Aboriginals in the 19th century. His later novels include Doin Wildcat (1988), Wildcat Screaming (1992), The Kwinkan (1994), and a trilogy composed of Master of the Ghost Dreaming (1991), Undying (1998), and Underground (1999). He also wrote poetry—including the volumes Song Circle of Jacky (1986), Dalwurra, the Black Bittern (1988), Collected Poems (1991), and Pacific Highway Boo-blooz: Country Poems (1996)—and the plays Big Sunday (1987) and Mutjinggaba: The Place of the Old Woman (1989). He published later work under his adopted Aboriginal name. Johnson's nonfiction includes Before the Invasion: Aboriginal Life to 1788 (1980), Writing from the Fringe: A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature (1990), Us Mob: History, Culture, Struggle (1995), and Indigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka (1997).

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