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Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper
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Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper was born in Melbourne in 1973. She was educated at the University of Melbourne and as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, New York. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime, was a New York Times Notable Book, and short-listed for the Orange Prize. She lives in Australia.

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Prologue from Tall Man
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man is now available in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man will be released on April 07, 2009 in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man is now available in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man will be released on April 07, 2009 in eBook
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man is now available in eBook
Apr 07, 2009
Tall Man is now available in eBook
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Tall Man will be released on April 07, 2009 in Hardcover
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Tall Man will be released on March 16, 2009 in eBook
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A Child's Book of True Crime will be released on April 01, 2003 in Trade Paperback
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Melbourne Age, May 14, 2012
...them the annual The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards (previous winners: Nam Le, Christos Tsiolkas, Chloe Hooper, Markus Zusak, Matthew Reilly and Sonya Hartnett). Of all the literary festivals, Sydney's probably has the...
Arts Hub, April 30, 2012
...cracking non-fiction. Overseas: Jon Ronson, Susan Orlean, Ariel Levy, Devin Friedman, Chris Heath, David Sedaris. Locally: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, John Birmingham, John van Tiggelen, Tim Elliott, Anna Krien. Is there a mission to your work? It’s...
Townsville Bulletin, April 6, 2012
...s Kerry McIlroy with a copy of the 2009 Premier's Literary Award winner The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper | Photo: FIONA HARDING A NORTH Queensland independent bookstore has vowed to help keep Queensland's annual literary awards alive despite funding being...
Green Left Weekly, January 29, 2012
...multi-award winning film, The Tall Man, is based on the critically-acclaimed book of the same name by journalist Chloe Hooper. In the book, Hooper describes footage filmed by a surveillance camera in the Palm Island police cell where Doomadgee was held...
Brisbane Times, November 11, 2011
...he faced in The Tall Man, a haunting documentary based on the book of the same name by Chloe Hooper. It is a story of two men of the same age, whose paths crossed with the most tragic of results; its subject is the 2004 death on Palm Island...
Arts Hub, October 26, 2011
...on the Hill by Estelle Pinney; Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Millerl; The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper; and The White Earth by Andrew McGahan. South Australia: Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy; Prohibited Zone by Alastair Sarre; The River Kings by Max...
Arts Hub, October 26, 2011
...on the Hill by Estelle Pinney; Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Millerl; The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper; and The White Earth by Andrew McGahan. South Australia: Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy; Prohibited Zone by Alastair Sarre; The River Kings by Max...
VIBE, February 22, 2012
...happened on that day in 2004.” The documentary is based on the book by Walkley Award winning author Chloe Hooper. AFI Award winning director Tony Krawitz chronicles the accounts of Cameron Doomadgee’s death and the manslaughter trial of Senior...
WA Today, February 4, 2012
...discontent within the community and demonstrations of solidarity among Queensland police. Tony Krawitz's documentary, based on journalist Chloe Hooper's book, recalls the events in sequence and interviews many of the original witnesses. It is thorough,...
Brisbane Times, February 4, 2012
...discontent within the community and demonstrations of solidarity among Queensland police. Tony Krawitz's documentary, based on journalist Chloe Hooper's book, recalls the events in sequence and interviews many of the original witnesses. It is thorough,...
Sydney Morning Herald, February 4, 2012
...discontent within the community and demonstrations of solidarity among Queensland police. Tony Krawitz's documentary, based on journalist Chloe Hooper's book, recalls the events in sequence and interviews many of the original witnesses. It is thorough,...
Melbourne Age, February 4, 2012
...discontent within the community and demonstrations of solidarity among Queensland police. Tony Krawitz's documentary, based on journalist Chloe Hooper's book, recalls the events in sequence and interviews many of the original witnesses. It is thorough,...
Yahoo!Xtra, February 3, 2012
...struggle to bring police officer Christopher Hurley to trial, and the events that followed, were the basis of Chloe Hooper's award-winning book, The Tall Man, on which director Tony Krawitz has based this documentary. Doomadgee's family, friends and Palm...
Yahoo!Xtra, February 3, 2012
...struggle to bring police officer Christopher Hurley to trial, and the events that followed, were the basis of Chloe Hooper's award-winning book, The Tall Man, on which director Tony Krawitz has based this documentary. Doomadgee's family, friends and Palm...