The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Chloe Hooper attended Lauriston Girls’ School before commencing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She studied creative writing at New York’s Columbia University under a Fulbright Scholarship.

Hooper’s first novel A Child’s Book of True Crime was launched at the 2002 Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Events

• 2011

  Documentary – The Tall Man, Blackfella Films (with Darren Dale and Tony Krawitz)

  Walkley Award (Long-form Journalism)
• 2006

  Magazine Feature Writing – ‘The Tall Man’, The Monthly

  Walkley Award (Print)