Chloe Hooper

Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.

Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2019 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.

Books

 * A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
 * The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) (released as Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
 * The Engagement (2012)
 * The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (2019)
 * Bedtime Story (2022)

Awards and recognition
Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.
 * Shortlisted 2002 Orange Prize. for (A Child's Book of True Crime)
 * Winner 2006 Walkley Award. for her articles in The Monthly on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island.
 * Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Award for Non-Fiction category, for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Book of the Year, for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for General Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 John Button Prize for Writing for Young Adults for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Non-Fiction Book Award for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Indie Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Ned Kelly Awards for Best True Crime for The Tall Man
 * Winner 2009 Davitt Awards for Best True Crime for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2008 Human Rights Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2008 Walkley Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards for Book of the Year for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2009 Queensland Premier's Award for Advancing Public Debate for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2009 Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction for The Tall Man
 * Shortlisted 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction for The Arsonist
 * Longlisted 2019 Stella Prize
 * Shortlisted 2023 National Biography Award for Bedtime Story