Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her autobiography ‘The Hate Race’.
The work, which focuses on growing up black in the white, middle-class society of Australia is but part-one of what Clarke aims to make a two-part story. She plans on using the $10,000 prize money to travel the many steps her family has made that eventuated in her residing in Australia. Clarke will re-trace her parents’ journey back to England, her grandparents to Jamaica and Guyana, and her ancestors to Africa.
