Cindy Solonec
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Cindy Solonec is an award winning First Nations Nigena (Nyikina) writer from the West Kimberley in Western Australia.[1]
She pursued higher education at the age of 36 and graduated with a PhD in History from University of Western Australia in 2016.[2][3]
Solenec's debut novel and was shortlisted in the 2022 Western Australian Book Awards,[4] The Premier's Prize for an Emerging writer. It was also shortlisted in the 2021 Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Williams/Lee Steere History Prize.[5]
Debesa[edit]
The novel chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley, and spans four generations from the 1880s onwards. The story begins with Solonec's maternal great-grandfather, Indian deckhand, Jimmy Casim,who lived with Nigena woman, Lucy Muninga on Yeeda Station near Derby. In the latter period, the book covers the marriage between Solenec's parents, Frank Rodriguez, a former Spanish Benedictine novice monk, and Katie Fraser, who was a novitiate in a convent for ‘black’ women at Beagle Bay Mission, 130 kilometres north of Broome.
Together, Frank and Katie Rodriguez established Debesa, where Solonec and her three siblings grew up with the rich cultural heritage of their Spanish, Nigena and English ancestors.
Life and career[edit]
Solonec is an university staff member at the University of Western Australia where she teaches Aboriginal studies.[6] She is a member of the History Council of Western Australia and she plays violin with Encore, a seniors’ all-strings orchestra.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Cindy Solonec". Magabala Books. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
- ↑ "Cindy Solonec". Magabala Books. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
- ↑ "Indigenous lawyer a champion for the vulnerable and disadvantaged : Archive Page : The University of Western Australia". www.news.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
- ↑ "2021 Shortlist". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ↑ "Cindy Solonec". Magabala Books. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ↑ "Cindy Solonec". Better Reading. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
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