Doris Pilkington Garimara Libri

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp

geboren 1953 in Bremen. Sie studierte Anglistik und Politik sowie Diplompädagogik in Marburg. Seit 1980 lebt und arbeitet sie als freie Autorin, Übersetzerin und Redakteurin in Hamburg.