VCE - Unit 1 & 2 Literature Study Guide

Biography

Teacher and researcher.

Born, raised, and writing in Dharug country, Araluen is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation. In 2017, while  working in Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney, she was the winner of the 2016 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: she had previously been a runner-up for the award in 2015, for 'Learning Bundjalung on Tharawal'. She is also the winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2017 award, won in 2018).

In August 2019, Araluen was appointed as one of two new co-editors for Overland, with Jonathan Dunk: the appointments followed the first open advertisement of the magazine's editorship in its 65-year history. (Auslit database, SLV, 6/8/2023)

Stella Prize: about the author and about the book

• First Nations scholars, settler colonial studies and Indigenous history

• Creating authentic Australian(s) for 2001: an Aboriginal perspective

• Multilcultural Australia - narratives of conflict, narratives of reconciliation : from politican's speeches to stolen generations narratives

• First Peoples : Indigenous cultures and their futures (Book review)

• Decolonising the landscape : Indigenous cultures in Australia (Book review)

• Culture and wellbeing : the case of indigenous Australians

• Mapping Australian Postcolonial landscapes: from resistance to reconciliation

• Learning her culture and growing up strong: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander's father, children and the sharing of culture

• Uncanny Australia: sacredness and identity in a postcolonial nation (Book review)

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen Review – a Stunning Scalpel Wielded through Australian Myths Declan Fry, review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 26 March 2021 

Books Roundup Dropbear, Emotional Female, Friends & Dark Shapes, Monsters Ellen Cregan , Ferdous Bahar , review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2021

• The legacy of Colonialism

• Aboriginal Australian Identity

Associate Professor Jeanine Leane, who was the official launcher, of Drop Bear gave a wonderful speech, which began:

It’s an honour to have been asked by Evelyn to launch this stunning and ground-breaking collection. In form and content every poem, every word in this book is a seamless affront to the colonial mythscape. The form that weaves and threads through both poetry and prose defies introduced constraining and restraining northern hemisphere genre rules and constrictions of what is poetry or what is prose.

Book Launch Speeches for Dropbear

• Staring Back: Jeanine Leane on Evelyn Araluen

• Evelyn Araluen’s poetry that can teach us all - Sydney Morning Herald 

• Rupturing Colonial Kitsch, Untangling Myth by Melody Paloma - Meanjin

• Timmah Ball reviews Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

• Westerly review of Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen   

• Dropbear / Evelyn Araluen - English in Australia review