Herb Wharton

Herbert Morsley Wharton AM (born 1936) is an Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist.

Biography

A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish.[1]

On 22 November 2012 Wharton received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature; a $50,000 award that recognises the achievements of eminent writers who have made outstanding and lifelong contributions to Australian literature.[2]

In 2013, Wharton was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards.[3]

The Fryer Library houses the Herb Wharton manuscript collection. The collection contains working and completed drafts of writings, poetry (published and unpublished), correspondence, diaries, speeches, taped interviews given by Wharton (both audio and video), and miscellaneous notes.[4][5]

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours Wharton was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant service to the literary arts, to poetry, and to the Indigenous community".[6]

Works

Novels

  • Unbranded (UQP, 1992) ISBN 0-7022-2444-8
  • Yumba Days (UQP, 1999) ISBN 978-0-7022-3113-1

Short stories

  • Cattle Camp: Murri Drovers and their Stories (UQP, 1994)
  • Where Ya Been Mate? (1996)

Poetry

  • Kings With Empty Pockets (2003) ISBN 978-0-9581883-4-0 Review
  • Imba (Listen): Tell You a Story (2003) ISBN 0-9581883-3-5

References
  1. "Profile: Herb Wharton". Australia Council. Archived from the original on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
  2. "Unique Indigenous story teller awarded". Australia Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  3. "2013 Queensland Greats recipients". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 31 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  4. "Herb Wharton collection UQFL 212" (PDF). University of Queensland Library, Fryer Library. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  5. "An ungraded bush track" (PDF). Fryer Folios. 2 (1): 14–17. 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  6. "Herbert Morsley Wharton". Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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