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Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – ABC News
Ellen van Neerven has pulled off a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Far from being an outlier, their work is part of a broader flourishing of First…
Young Mununjali Yugambeh author Ellen van Neerven pulled off a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for their second poetry collection, Throat, at an online ceremony on Monday evening.
Awarding van Neerven’s collection the Book of the Year (worth $10,000), the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000) and the Multicultural NSW Award ($20,000), the judges praised the work’s “beauty, honesty and power” and said it “confirms their place as one of the sharpest and most compelling poets of…
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