![]() ![]() ![]() His writing centred around the Aboriginal experience in relation to the settlement of white Australians. While known for his literary work, Davis did not focus on writing until his fifties. His work incorporates themes of Aboriginality and identity. He identified with the Western Australian Noongar people, and he included some of this language into his plays. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he spent most of his life and later died. Academic Adam Shoemaker, who has covered much of Jack Davis‘ work and Aboriginal literature, has claimed he was one of “Australia’s most influential Aboriginal authors”. Jack Leonard Davis AM, BEM (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Aboriginal Australian activist. Order of the British Empire Order of Australia ![]() Poetry, acting, writing, Aboriginal rights activism ![]()
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