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Authors leave publisher after kids book cancelled for illustrator's comments

Award-winning poet Evelyn Araluen is among the authors who have left a publisher after it decided not to publish an Indigenous picture book due to its illustrator's past statements. (Supplied: James Henry)

Authors including Stella Prize winner Evelyn Araluen have cut ties with publisher University of Queensland Press (UQP) after it scrapped publication of an Indigenous author's picture book.

All 5,000 already-printed copies of the unreleased book, Bila, a river cycle, by award-winning Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun, are set to be destroyed, after past comments by Chun were found to have breached the university's policy on anti-Semitism.

University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack

Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries of imperialism’

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An Australian publishing house has cancelled the publication of a children’s book by an award-winning Indigenous poet over comments the book’s illustrator made about the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack, whom he called “affluent beneficiaries of imperialism”.

University of Queensland said on Wednesday its publishing house would not proceed with the publication of Bila, A River Cycle, written by Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun, and was considering “recycling options” for already printed copies.

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