Kim Scott (born 1957) is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of Western Australian Noongar people. Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a white mother and an Aboriginal father. Scott has written three novels and a childrens book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies. He began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English. His teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal. He spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his familys history. His first novel, True Country , was published in 1993 with an edition published in a French translation in 2005. His second novel, Benang , won the Western Australian Premiers Book Awards 1999, the Miles Franklin Award 2000, and the RAKA Kate Challis Award 2001. Both novel...