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Boori Monty Pryor (born 1950) is an Indigenous Australian writer best known as a storyteller and as the inaugural Australian Children's Laureate (20122013). Pryor is descended from the Birri-gubba nation of the Bowen region and the Kunggandji people from Yarrabah, near Cairns. He had a long career communicating Indigenous culture to schools in Australia, performing dances, playing didgeridoo, and storytelling, before turning to writing books. He has worked in film and television, sport, and music. In 1990, Pryor received the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee Award as a result of his "outstanding contribution to the promotion of Indigenous culture." In his keynote address for the 2013 Come Out Festival in Adelaide, Pryor spoke about the importance of storytelling, performance, and dance in engaging children with literacy, literature, and Indigenous cultures. Pryor was an ambassador for the National Year of Reading (Australia) in 2012. == Bibliography == Picture Books * ''Shake a Leg'', illustrated by Jan Ormerod (2010), winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Fiction in 2011. Young adult novels * ''Njunjul the Sun'', co-authored with Meme McDonald (2002) * ''The Binna Binna Man'', co-authored with Meme McDonald (1999), won an Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in 2000 * ''My Girragundji'', co-authored with Meme McDonald (1998), winner of a Children's Book Council of Australia Award * ''Flytrap'', co-authored with Meme McDonald (2002) Non-fiction * ''Maybe Tomorrow'', co-authored with Meme McDonald (1998) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boori Monty Pryor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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