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It\\u2019s been a big year for Anita Heiss, author, playwright, public speaker and University of Queensland academic.\\xa0

In May, she won the Indigenous Writers Prize at the NSW Premier\\u2019s Literary Awards. In June, she was appointed a member of the Order of Australia. And this month sees the release of an anthology of personal stories by Wiradjuri elders, which Heiss, herself a Wiradjuri woman, has edited. Topping that off, her first play, adapted from her novel\\xa0Tiddas, is on at Brisbane\\u2019s La Boite Theatre. Oh, and she ran three marathons between the ages of 49 and 51.

\\u201cI\\u2019ve had a lot of proud achievements,\\u201d she tells Konrad Marshall on this week\\u2019s\\xa0Good Weekend Talks. \\u201cI was the first person in my family to go to university ... and then the first indigenous person to graduate from what is now known as Western Sydney University.\\xa0Being a creative and being an author, I would have to say that my novel on the great flood of Gundagai is my greatest creative achievement. But having said that, we are in the middle of my play. So in two weeks\\u2019 time, I might have a different answer in that space!\\u201d

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