The official website of B. Wongar - The Serbian-Australian Aboriginal writer who challenged the status quo and in the process, created a literary myth.
A voice for the marginalised
“To date, his [B.Wongar’s] books have been translated into 13 languages, and have sold more than 250,000 copies. In many countries Wongar is recognised as a leading Australian writer…his books have received accolades from such diverse writers as Alan Paton, who wrote a commendatory preface to The Track to Braglu, Thomas Keneally and Simone de Beauvoir.”
Canberra Times
“A lot of trouble began for me after I mounted an exhibition of photographs which I took in the bush showing the condition of the Aborigines displaced by uranium mining and British nuclear testing.”
B. Wongar - 1991
A man shaped by perseverance
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