Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and poet. Their first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers,[1] the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize[2] and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015.[3] Their second book, the poetry collection Comfort Food, was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, Confidence Game, was featured in SBS podcast series, True Stories, in 2015.[4]
Early life
Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents.[5] They studied Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.[6]
Personal life
Van Neerven is a Yugambeh person.[7] They are openly queer.[8] They live in Brisbane, Australia.[9]
Awards and honours
- 2013: Queensland Literary Awards — The David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for Heat and Light
- 2015: Dobbie Literary Award for Heat and Light
- 2015: Stella Prize shortlist for Heat and Light[3]
- 2015: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for Heat and Light[10]
- 2016: NSW Premier's Literary Award — Indigenous Writers Prize for Heat and Light[2]
- 2016: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for Heat and Light[11]
- 2017: The poem "Mango" from van Neerven’s collection Comfort Food (2016) was chosen as a sample text in the English Paper 1 examination of the New South Wales Higher School Certificate[12]
- 2019: Queensland Literary Awards — Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards — winner[13]
- 2020: University of Queensland Press' inaugural Quentin Bryce Award for Throat[14]
- 2020: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry: shortlisted for Throat[15]
- 2021: Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry: shortlisted for Throat[16]
Bibliography
Collections
- Heat and light, University of Queensland Press (2014)
List of short stories
- Skin, Meanjin Literary Journal[17]
- Wetskins, The Lifted Brow[18]
- S&J, McSweeney's[19]
Collections
- Comfort Food, University of Queensland Press (2016)
- Throat, University of Queensland Press (2020)
List of poems
- 'Invisible Spears', Overland Literary Journal (Issue 220)[20]
Anthologies
- Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, edited by Ellen van Neerven, State Library of Queensland (2014)
- Joiner Bay and Other Stories, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Margaret River Press (2017)
- Homeland calling : words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Desert Pea Media via Hardie Grant Publishing (2020)[21]
Critical studies and reviews of van Neerven's work
- Patrić, Alec (September 2014). "[Untitled review of Heat and light]". Australian Book Review. 364: 48.
References
- jurisdiction=Queensland, ; corporateName=State Library of Queensland. "2013 winners". qldlitawards.org.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Winners announced for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". State Library of New South Wales. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Ellen van Neerven". Programs. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "An Interview with Ellen van Neerven |". Sydney Review of Books. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- Russell, Stephen A. "Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices". SBS.
- "UQP - Ellen Van Neerven". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- Wyndham, Susan (13 May 2016). "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards turn 20". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 2016 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- McGowan, Michael (16 October 2017). "Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven abused by year 12 English students". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
- Qian, Jinghua (12 November 2019). "Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- "Van Neerven wins inaugural UQP Quentin Bryce Award". Books+Publishing. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- "Skin". Meanjin. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "'Wetskins', by Ellen van Neerven | The Lifted Brow". theliftedbrow.com. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "McSweeney's Issue 41". store.mcsweeneys.net. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Invisible spears". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- Homeland calling. Neerven, Ellen van, 1990-, Baker, Danzal, Pitt, Lakkari. Richmond, Vic. ISBN 978-1-74117-692-6. OCLC 1126588713.CS1 maint: others (link)
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