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Archie Weller (born 1957) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.
Biography. Archie Weller grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the south-west of Western Australia and later attended Guildford Grammar School near Perth as a boarder. His grandfather's influence and encouragement were important in Weller's desire to write.
'Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing. The Window Seat is a collection of his best short fiction and a tribute to his contribution to Australian literature.
Archie Weller was born on 13 July 1957 in Cranbrook, Western Australia. He went to the exclusive Guildford Grammar school in Perth. He is tertiary educated. Weller has written short stories, fiction and plays. His first novel, The Day of the Dog (1981) was written in six weeks after he was released from Broome gaol.
'Archie Weller clearly shows himself as a poet for the underdog feeling a misfit at his boarding school and after leaving, immersing himself in Aboriginality absorbing the lifestyle and legends of a wide circle of Aboriginal friends from all walks of life. He explains his poems as important moments in his life.' (Source: Booktopia website)
The Nyoongah author, Archie Weller, for instance, can be (under)read and (mis)understood as a chronicler of despair, squalor and violence; as a 'relentless realist' with a bent for the romantic (Tiffin 223).
Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.
