Boori Monty Pryor
Boori travels extensively as a performer and public speaker for school students and adult groups throughout Australia and overseas
Boori has worked in numerous industries including education, film, television, modelling, sport and music. He has played in two World Masters Games in Basketball competition, winning a Silver Medal for Australia in 1994.
In 1990 he was awarded the National Aboriginal and Islander Observance Day Committee Award for "outstanding contribution to the promotion of indigenous culture".
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Boori leads the reader from the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the catwalk, basketball court, DJ console and more. This is the fully revised story of his life, his pain, his joy and his hopes in a new anniversary edition, as powerful now as it was when it was first published in 1998. Category: Junior non-fictionPublisher: Allen & Unwin |
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A 16-year-old Aboriginal boy leaves his family and home for the big city, and as he struggles to make sense of his experience he realises that he must have the knowledge of his own people and culture in order to know who he is, and to find his direction. Category: Fiction 13+Publisher: Allen & Unwin |
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This is a story about having fun and sharing culture; a celebration of the power of story and dance ... and discarding a few stereotypes along the way. Category: Fiction 7+, Picture story booksPublisher: Allen & Unwin |
