{"id":154440,"date":"2021-10-25T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=154440"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:25:22","slug":"book-recommendations-from-sj-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2021\/10\/25\/book-recommendations-from-sj-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book recommendations from SJ Norman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SJ Norman is an artist, writer and curator. Their career has so far spanned seventeen years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. Their work has been commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space New York, Venice International Performance Art Week, and the National Gallery of Australia, to name a few. They are the recipient of numerous awards for contemporary art, including a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and an Australia Council Fellowship. Their writing has won or placed in numerous prizes, including the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Peter Blazey Award, the Judith Wright Prize and the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In 2019, they established Knowledge of Wounds, a global gathering of queer First Nations artists, which they co-curate with Joseph M Pierce. They are currently based between Sydney and New York. Their latest book is a short fiction collection called Permafrost<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, SJ Norman is on the blog to share with us their favourite books from First Nations authors. Read on!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SJ Norman on Permafrost<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Permafrost <\/em>is a collection of short stories that explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations \u2013 from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England \u2013 Permafrost <\/em>is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s my essential First Nations reading list. It\u2019s spread across genres and forms, and includes Indigenous authors from Australia, Turtle Island and Africa. Their nationhood is listed alongside their names.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"9780702263385\"<\/a>how to make a basket<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jazz Money (Wiradjuri)<\/p>\n\n\n

Johnny Appleseed<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Peguis Nation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking up to the White Woman<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Goenpul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Senthuran<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Akwaeke Emezi (Igbo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Split Tooth<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Tanya Tagaq (Inuit)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Left Them Nothing<\/strong><\/em> by Demian Din\u00e9Yhazi (Din\u00e9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throat<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Ellen van Neerven (Mununjali)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A History of My Brief Body<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature Poem<\/em><\/strong> by Tommy Pico (Kumeyaay)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black and Blue<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Veronica Gorrie (Gunai\/Kurnai)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now<\/a><\/strong><\/em> edited by Ellen van Neerven<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jake Skeets (Din\u00e9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disintegrate\/Dissociate<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Arielle Twist (Cree)<\/p>\n\n\n

\"9780702263187\"<\/a>Dropbear<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Evelyn Araluen (Bundjalung)<\/p>\n\n\n

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction<\/a><\/em><\/strong> edited by Joshua Whitehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong> edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Song of the Crocodile<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Nardi Simpson (Yuwaalaraay)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post Me to the Prime Minister<\/em><\/strong> by Romaine Moreton (Bundjalung, Goenpul Yagera)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journey into Dreamtime<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Munya Andrews (Bardi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seven Sisters of the Plei<\/a>a<\/a>des<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Munya Andrews (Bardi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech Clan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, There<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne, Arapaho)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As We Have Always Done<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Mississauga Nishnaabeg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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