Unemployed Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins $215,000 literary prize

Australian writer who lives in a caravan in Adelaide says surprise Windham-Campbell award will ‘change my life completely’

Now unemployed and living in a caravan in Adelaide, the Indigenous Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann says she “pretty much just cried a lot” when she received an email on Thursday notifying her that she had won a literary prize of US$165,000 (A$215,000).

“It’s going to change my life completely,” she told Guardian Australia after being awarded a Windham-Campbell prize. “I’m pretty emotional.”

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