Ali Cobby Eckermann is an Australian poet of Aboriginal ancestry. She has written poetry collections, verse novels, and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards. Eckermann's first collection, little bit long time, launched her literary career in 2009. In 2013, she toured Ireland as the Australian Poetry Ambassador and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Book of the Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight, a massacre verse novel. In 2014, she was the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers Week and became the first Aboriginal Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2017, she won the international Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry and in 2024 the Indigenous Writers' Prize. Eckermann has traveled extensively, performing her poetry.
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Ali Cobby Eckermann adalah seorang penyair Australia keturunan Aborigin. Ia telah menulis sejumlah kumpulan puisi, novel puisi, sebuah memoar, dan telah masuk dalam beberapa daftar pendek bahkan memenangkan penghargaan sastra. Koleksi pertama Eckermann, little bit long time, menjadi awal dari karir sastranya di tahun 2009. Pada tahun 2013, ia melakukan tur ke Irlandia sebagai Duta Puisi Australia dan memenangkan Kenneth Slessor Prize dan Book of the Year (NSW) untuk Ruby Moonlight, sebuah novel puisi tentang pembantaian. Pada tahun 2014, ia menjadi penerima pertama Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship di Adelaide Writers Week dan menjadi penulis Aborigin pertama yang mengikuti International Writing Program di University of Iowa. Pada tahun 2017, ia memenangkan Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry dan selanjutnya Indigenous Writers' Prize pada tahun 2024. Eckermann telah melakukan banyak perjalanan, mempertunjukkan puisinya di berbagai tempat di dunia.
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