Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins Book of the Year at NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her "stunning" verse novel She Is the Earth.

"It's very overwhelming and very thrilling ," Eckermann says. "It was 12 years ago when my brother flew to Sydney to accept a similar award from the NSW Premier's Awards for Ruby Moonlight. For the recognition to also be given to She Is the Earth is beyond my dreams." "We've put all this effort into talking about this lousy 250 years. I want to talk about the other 79,750 years," Eckermann

"We've always had it and assimilation hasn't removed it. It's just changed a little bit. Now we access our poetry and we share our poetry in a different way."Angela O'Keeffe was shortlisted in 2022 for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for new writing, for her first novel, Night Blue. "I just really was quite fascinated by the fact that she looked different in each one and she looked pretty unhappy in each one," she says.

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