Record ID:
50127858 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2015080074
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Yankunytjatjara (Australian people)
  • Kokatha (Australian people)
Birth:
  • 1963
  • South Australia
Associated with:
  • Australia
Lived/located in:
  • South Australia Northern Territory
  • Koolunga (S.A.)
Fields of activity:
  • Poetry
Occupations:
  • Poets
Used for:
  • Eckermann, Ali Cobby, 1963-
Notes:
  • Ruby Moonlight, 2012 t.p. (Ali Cobby Eckermann) ; page 83 (poet of the Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha people; born on Kaurna land in 1963; she was one of the "Stolen Generations", children of Aboriginal Australian descent who were removed from their families by government agencies and church missions; adopted as a baby into the Eckermann family; after more than thirty years in the Northern Territory, now lives in the village of Koolunga, South Australia) ; pub. website (Ali Cobby Eckermann is a celebrated poet and writer. She lives in Koolunga, South Australia, where she has established an Aboriginal writer's retreat. Ali identifies with the Yankunytjatjara / Kokatha from the north west desert country of South Australia. Ali's poems and short stories have been published in various anthologies, journals and magazines. Ali has won several awards including First Prize in ATSI Survival Poetry competition in 2006, First Prize Dymocks Red Erath Poetry Award NT in 2008, and was highly Commended for the Marion Eldridge Award in 2009. Her first book of poetry Little bit long time was published in 2009. The book was sold out in months.)
  • Ali Cobby Eckermann (poet), Australia, Poetry International, viewed June 8, 2015 via WWW (Cobby Eckermann entered the Batchelor College of Indigenous Tertiary Education in Alice Springs in 2001 to study creative writing)
  • OCLC, June 8, 2015 (access point: Eckermann, Ali Cobby, 1963- ; Eckermann, Ali Cobby; Cobby Eckermann, Ali; usage: Ali Cobby Eckermann)
  • Poetry International Rotterdam website, Mar. 4, 2016 (Ali Cobby Eckermann (Australia, 1963). Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara / Kokatha kunga (woman) born on Kaurna land in 1963. As a baby Ali was adopted into the Eckermann family. After failed attempts she was assisted by Link Up to find her mother Audrey, and four years later her son Jonnie. Her journey was supported by many members of the Stolen Generations. She regularly visits her traditional family in rural and remote South Australia; to learn and to heal. After nearly thirty years in the Northern Territory, Ali chooses to live in the 'intervention-free' village of Koolunga, South Australia, where she is renovating the old general store and establishing an Aboriginal Writers Retreat)
Local system number:
  • (AuAU)1087622
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX109160
Cataloguing source:
  • SUA eng SUA SUA rda
Authentication code:
  • anuc