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== Personal life == == Personal life ==
Van Neerven is a ] woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/ellen-van-neerven-writer-yugambeh/|title=Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) {{!}} NGV|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> She is openly queer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/article/2016/02/19/throwing-light-queer-indigenous-voices|title=Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices|last=Russell|first=Stephen A|date=|website=|publisher=SBS|access-date=}}</ref> She lives in ], Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1729/Ellen%20Van%20Neerven|title=UQP - Ellen Van Neerven|website=www.uqp.uq.edu.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> Van Neerven is a ] woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/ellen-van-neerven-writer-yugambeh/|title=Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) {{!}} NGV|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> She is openly queer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/article/2016/02/19/throwing-light-queer-indigenous-voices|title=Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices|last=Russell|first=Stephen A|date=|website=|publisher=SBS|access-date=}}</ref> She lives in ], Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1729/Ellen%20Van%20Neerven|title=UQP - Ellen Van Neerven|website=www.uqp.uq.edu.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>

As well as this Ellen is a world renowned mango farmer and general enthusiast for the exotic fruit, she has received many prestigious awards for her work amongst mango advocates. Geographers liken her work to the holy bible. She has inspired millions globally and continues to do so today. And many a boy was met at the local 'dam' encouraging the slapping of water and piling of bikes.
== Awards and honours == == Awards and honours ==
* 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' ] for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":0" /> * 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' ] for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":0" />

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Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Indigenous Australian writer and poet. Her first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015. Her 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.

Early life

Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents. She studied Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.

Personal life

Van Neerven is a Yugambeh woman. She is openly queer. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2017)

Short fiction

Collections

  • Neerven, Ellen van (2014), Heat and light, St Lucia, Queensland University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-5321-8

List of stories

Poetry

Collections

List of poems

Critical studies and reviews of van Neerven's work

References

  1. ^ jurisdiction=Queensland, ; corporateName=State Library of Queensland;. "2013 winners". qldlitawards.org.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ 1414, scheme=AGLSTERMS.AglsAgent; corporateName=State Library of New South Wales; address=Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000; contact=+61 2 9273 (2016-05-16). "Winners announced for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". www.sl.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19. {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  4. "Ellen van Neerven". Programs. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  5. "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  6. "An Interview with Ellen van Neerven |". Sydney Review of Books. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  7. "Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  8. Russell, Stephen A. "Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices". SBS.
  9. "UQP - Ellen Van Neerven". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  10. Wyndham, Susan (2016-05-13). "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards turn 20". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  11. "Skin". Meanjin. 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  12. "'Wetskins', by Ellen van Neerven | The Lifted Brow". theliftedbrow.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  13. "McSweeney's Issue 41". store.mcsweeneys.net. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  14. "Invisible spears". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 2016-11-19.

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