Mudrooroo

Colin Johnson was born on 21 August 1938 near Narrogin, in Western Australia; his father died before his birth, and his elder siblings were placed in care. He himself spent seven years at Clontarf, then, after burglaries, two spells in Fremantle Prison, where he began to write. He travelled to India and London, taught Aboriginal studies at Murdoch University and then at the University of Queensland, and in 1988 took the name Mudrooroo. In 1996, his elder sister and Noongar elders publicly challenged his Aboriginal ancestry. Living in exile in Nepal from 2001, he died in Brisbane on 20 January 2019.

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