INDIGENOUS writer Ali Cobby Eckermann was the big winner at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, collecting the $30,000 poetry prize and $10,000 book of the year award for Ruby Moonlight, published by Broome-based Magabala Books.
Ruby Moonlight is series of connected poems that tell the life story of an indigenous girl who survives a massacre in South Australia about 1880. That is hard terrain, but Cobby Eckermann navigates it surely, as the judges make clear: "[She] writes the history of Ruby but also of indigenous people who were victims of massacres around Australia during colonisation. The writing evokes violence and loneliness, isolation and death, but within this darkness is a healing brightness ... The writing is not didactic or angry but generates discussion; it offers the reader a chance to understand more about this country's past and its impact on our present."
Ruby Moonlight - Book of the Year
Congratulations to Ali Cobby Eckermann, who verse novel, Ruby Moonlight, won the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and $10,000 Book of Year Award in the prestigious NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
A Nunga poet from South Australia, Ali is the second Aboriginal writer to win the top prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, in consecutive years. The awards were announced on Sunday, 19 May 2013 at a presentation dinner held at the NSW Library.
http://www.magabala.com/latestnews/ruby-moonlight-nsw-awards
Also....
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2013/05/27/3766600.htm
http://www.ilurapress.com/index.php?pid=54&PHPSESSID=82033d01848b8b95eb15dd6ddddf0bc6
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15741311-ruby-moonlight
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