Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen
Notable worksDropbear
Notable awardsStella Prize

Evelyn Araluen is an Australian poet and literary editor.[1] She won the 2022 Stella Prize with her first book, Dropbear.

Early life

Araluen is an Aboriginal Australian of the Bundjalung people, born on Dharug land.[2]

Career

Araluen's poetry has been published in The Best Australian Poems 2016, Overland, Cordite Poetry Review and Southerly and other literary journals. She contributed a chapter, "Finding Ways Home", to Anita Heiss' Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia.[3]

In 2019 she and Jonathan Dunk were appointed co-editors of Overland, an established Australian literary journal[4] and in November that year were joint recipients of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant.[5] She also won the inaugural Professional Development Award at the 2021 Melbourne Prize.[6]

Her first book, Dropbear was published by the University of Queensland Press in March 2021.[7]

Recognition and awards

After being runner-up in the 2016 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her poem, "Learning Bundjalung on Tharawal",[8] she won the following year for her short story, "Muyum: a transgression".[9] In 2017 she also won first and third prizes in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for "Guarded by birds" and "Dropbear poetics".[10]

In 2018 Araluen received one of the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Next Chapter grants, providing 12 months' mentoring by Tony Birch and a three-day writing retreat at Varuna, The Writers' House.[11][12]

Dropbear won the 2022 Stella Prize[13][14] and was highly commended in the 2021 Anne Elder Award.[15] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award,[16] the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing[17] and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Austlit — Evelyn Araluen". Austlit. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  2. ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (28 April 2022). "Poet Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 for her 'strange little book'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Austlit — Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia edited by Anita Heiss". Austlit. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Overland appoints Araluen Corr, Dunk as co-editors". Books+Publishing. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Writers Victoria announces latest Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients". Books+Publishing. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners". Books+Publishing. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP)". Books+Publishing. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Van Neerven wins 'Overland'/Melbourne Uni Indigenous writers' prize". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Araluen wins 'Overland' Nakata Brophy short fiction prize". Books+Publishing. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Araluen wins 'Overland' Judith Wright Poetry Prize | Books+Publishing". 26 February 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Inaugural recipients of $150k The Next Chapter initiative announced". Books+Publishing. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  12. ^ "The Next Chapter mentors announced". Books+Publishing. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. ^ Wright, Fiona (28 April 2022). "Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: "I was one paycheck away from complete poverty"". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  14. ^ Story, Hannah (28 April 2022). ""An insane honour": Young First Nations poet wins $60,000 prize for women and non-binary writers". ABC News. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  17. ^ "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  18. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.