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Tasma Walton is a proud Boonwurrung woman from the saltwater country of Melbourne and surrounding coastlines. As an award-winning actor, she has most recently garnered recognition for her acclaimed role of Mary Swan in the highly regarded Mystery Road television and film franchise. She has appeared in numerous television productions, including The Twelve, Rake, Cleverman, Deadloch and The Secret Life of Us; for her renowned role of Dash McKinley in Blue Heelers she received a Best New Talent Logie Award. Her films include Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road, Jub Clerc’s Sweet As; How to Please a Woman, Kid Snow, Looking for Grace, Blessed and Fistful of Flies, for the last of which she won the Sochi Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her work across both film and television has seen her nominated for multiple AACTA Awards. Tasma’s first novel, Heartless, was nominated for an ABIA Award for General Fiction, and the first book in her children’s series Nerra: Deep Time Traveller was longlisted for the DANZ Children’s Book Award. She has worked in various writer’s rooms and workshops in the development stage of many film, television and theatre productions. Tasma’s most cherished role is playing mum to her ten-year-old daughter, Ruby.
‘A soulful, breathtaking achievement that lyrically weaves a fearless account of the horrors of brutal colonisation with the resilience of First Nations women and an unbreakable connection to Country. Tasma Walton has emerged as a masterful, mesmerising storyteller.’ -- <B>Larissa Behrendt</B> ‘I am Nannertgarrook is a story of both deep time and contemporary resonance. Within these pages a heartbeat runs through Country as it does our bodies. Through exquisite storytelling and with characters of tremendous strength, Tasma Walton brings us a novel charged with love and courage.’ -- <B>Tony Birch</B> ‘Tasma continues our ancient tradition of storytelling with this important story of our stolen women, and their determination to hold family, culture and language so we can one day return and bring their stories home. I Am Nannertgarrook is a story of the Ancestors that is forever written on our Country and hearts.’ -- <B>Senior Elder Aunty Gail Kunwarra Dawson</B> ‘Tasma’s novel connects us all to the stories of our ancestors – their idyllic life on Country before the brutal realities of the not too distant past. This is truth-telling for a future with more humanity than Nannertgarrook could have ever imagined. Tasma’s Old Ones would be very proud.’ -- <B>Narelda Jacobs</B> ‘A beautiful, heart-wrenching story of a proud woman whose world is ripped apart and whose strength, resilience and love rises above the brutality around her. A hidden Australian story that deserves to come into the light.’ -- <B>Isla Fisher</B> ‘Beautiful and evocative storytelling. Joyfully uplifting and utterly heartbreaking in equal measure.’ -- <B>Ben Elton</B> ‘An extraordinary feat. Tasma takes you to a deep time, a world on the cusp of ending, that's both recognisable to us as a conquered land and unknown to most of us – the words and knowledge, and stories of who was there before. I wept through the final chapters at the tragedy of the end of a world, but will hold close the gift Tasma leaves – an understanding of the women who walked the lands I know, and the knowledge and love they held. The way I see the land of my childhood is forever changed.’ -- <B>Rachel Griffiths</B> ‘Tasma Walton’s extraordinary novel is a momentous feat – ancient and urgent all at once. Nannertgarrook’s heart-rending story echoes across time, commemorating and continuing female lore and legacy with a fierce, furious grace, and urging us to listen and learn. And it is impossible not to. This is profoundly visceral and vivid truth-telling that should be compulsory reading for every Australian.’ -- <B>Kate Mulvany</B>
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