Kate Howarth (writer)
Kate Howarth (born in Sydney, 1950) is an [Aboriginal Australian]] writer whose memoir Ten Hail Marys was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2010. The sequel, Settling Day, was published in 2015.
Early life
Kate Howarth was raised by her grandmother and other relatives in Darlinghurst and rural N.S.W.[1] Howarth was taken out of school at age 14, believing then that her desires of one day becoming a writer were gone. When she fell pregnant at the age of 15, she went to the St Margaret's Home for Unwed Mothers in Sydney.[2] After giving birth, she resisted to give her son up for adoption and became one of the women to leave the institution with her child.[3] The story of the first 17 years of her life is recounted in her memoir Ten Hail Marys, which challenges evidence taken at a Parliamentary inquiry into Adoption Practices in N.S.W. from 1950 to 1998.[1]
Books
- Ten Hail Marys (2010) ISBN 978-0-7022-3770-6
- Settling Day (2015) ISBN 978-0-7022-5005-7
Awards and nominations
Shortlisted
- 2008 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (David Uniapon Award) for Ten Hail Marys
- 2010 - Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Shortlisted for Indigenous Writing Award.
- 2010 - Won -The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year