Age, Biography and Wiki
Jared Thomas was born on 1976 in Port Augusta, Australia, is an Australian writer. Discover Jared Thomas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?
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Jared Thomas Height, Weight & Measurements
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Jared Thomas Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jared Thomas worth at the age of 48 years old? Jared Thomas’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from Australia. We have estimated Jared Thomas's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Jared Thomas (born 1976) is an Australian author of children's fiction, playwright and museum curator.
Several of his books have been shortlisted for awards, and he has been awarded three writing fellowships.
Thomas was born in Port Augusta in 1976, of Aboriginal, Scottish, and Irish heritage.
He is a Nukunu man, born on Nukunu land in the Southern Flinders Ranges and raised within the Nukunu culture.
He was inspired by seeing the play Funerals and Circuses by Arrernte playwright Roger Bennett when on a school excursion to the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 1992 and decided to study the humanities and writing.
After excelling in his undergraduate BA degree at the University of Adelaide, he worked for the Fringe for a while before gaining a traineeship to work as an editor of a publication at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, where he developed a love of visual arts.
Working at Adelaide University as an academic advisor, he enrolled for a masters degree in creative writing and wrote plays.
His work Love, Land and Money was later produced for the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
After having poems and short stories published in several anthologies, he started focusing on novels, and his first novel, Sweet Guy (2005) was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2006 and the Festival Awards for Literature.
As lecturer of Communication and Literature at the University of South Australia's David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, Thomas enrolled for his PhD in Creative Writing, which he completed in 2011.
Thomas was a member of the working party involved in the creation of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) in 2012.
In September 2015, in a collaboration with Poets House in New York City, Thomas participated in a recording of six FNAWN members reading their work at a special event, which was recorded.
He has coordinated Nukunu People's Council cultural heritage, language, and arts projects.
In May 2018 he began a 12-month secondment as William and Margaret Geary Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Material Culture at the South Australian Museum, and in 2019 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to "investigate colonised people's interpretative strategies in permanent gallery displays" in museums abroad.
He was Arts Development Officer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts at Arts SA in 2018, and is an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
In May 2018 Thomas began a 12-month secondment as William and Margaret Geary Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Material Culture at the South Australian Museum.
In this role he curated the Yurtu Ardla exhibition from March to June 2019.
In September 2019 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to New Zealand, the US, Canada and Norway, "to investigate colonised people's interpretative strategies in permanent gallery displays".
In 2020, Thomas was employed as Indigenous consultant on two ABC TV series, Stateless and Operation Buffalo.
