Chloe Hooper is a highly-awarded writer of fiction and non-fiction.

She received a Walkley Award for articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island. These articles became the basis for The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008), which won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing.

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (2018) was published to similar acclaim. It was shortlisted in the Victorian's Premier's Book Awards and longlisted for The Stella Prize and The Indie Book Awards in 2019.

Chloe is also the author of two novels, A Child’s Book of True Crime (2002), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Literature in the United Kingdom and The Engagement (2014).

Read the complete transcript of our interview with Chloe at thegarretpodcast.com.

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