Wanda Koolmatrie (1949 - ) writer.

Koolmatrie, an aboriginal Australian, was born to the Pitjantjatjara people but taken from her mother in 1950 and raised by white foster parents. She finally expressed herself in an aboriginal acting troop. Her 1994 autobiography, My Own Sweet Time, won the $5,000 Dobbie award for women’s life writing.

When she proposed a sequel to the book in 1997, the publisher insisted on meeting her, and it came out that she is the female persona of Leon Carmen (1950 - ) and John Bayley, two white men with a grudge that white men cannot get published. Carmen admitted that he had not ever met an aboriginal woman.

• Wanda Koolmatrie. My Own Sweet Time. Broome WA: Magabala Books 1994.
• John Bayley. Daylight Corroboree: a first-hand account of the Wanda Koolmatrie hoax. Eidolon Press 2004.
• “Wanda Koolmatrie”. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Koolmatrie.