Chloe Hooper

Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 26 October 1973) is an Australian author.
Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case.

• A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) (released as The Tall Man:The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
• The Engagement (2012)

• "The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper". Official website. Penguin Group (Australia). Retrieved 28 May 2013. 

• Shortlisted 2002 Orange Prize. for (A Child's Book of True Crime)
• Winner 2006 Walkley Award. for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.
• Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Award for Non-Fiction category, for Tall Man
• Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Book of the Year, for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for the Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for General Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 John Button Prize for Writing for Young Adults for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 QLD Premier’s Book Award for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 New South Wales Premier’s Book Award for Douglas Stewart Prize for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Indie Award for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Ned Kelly Awards for Best True Crime for Tall Man
• Winner 2009 Davitt Awards for Best True Crime for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2008 Human Rights Award for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2008 Walkley Award for Non-fiction for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for Book of the Year for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2009 QLD Premier’s Award for Advancing Public Debate for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for Gleebooks for Tall Man
• Shortlisted 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction for Tall Man

• Chloe Hooper @ Fantastic Fiction
• ^ "The Tall Man". Copyright Agency Reading Australia. Retrieved 10 January 2017. 

• The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
• Items by Chloe Hooper in The Monthly
• Chloe Hooper discusses her book 'The Tall Man' at the Sydney Writers Festival video on ABC Fora
• Potter, Emily (2004). "Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime". JASAL. 3: 95–102. ISSN 1447-8986.