Yvonne Weldon Yvonne Weldon i(10039828 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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BiographyHistory

'Yvonne Weldon is a Wiradjuri woman from both the Kalare/ Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers in New South Wales. Yvonne is a proud mother of three children. Yvonne has worked in the Aboriginal community controlled and government sectors (federal, state and local) and has been actively involved in Aboriginal affairs her entire life. Yvonne is the elected Chairperson of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council located in the heart of Redfern. Yvonne maintains linkages to her homelands and feels complete when she returns home to Cowra.'

*Source: Queensland Literary Awards (http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/about/shortlists/david-unaipon-award-shortlist#weldon). (Sighted: 09/09/2016)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 recipient Order of Australia Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For significant service to the Indigenous community of New South Wales.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Sixty-Seven Days Melbourne : Michael Joseph , 2022 24422731 2022 single work novel

'An intense and mesmerising story of first love, culture and belief.

''We don't say any words – everything has been said through two sets of eyes, two entangled souls and endless kissing.'

'Evie has been raised in the heart of Aboriginal Redfern, by a proud trailblazing Wiradjuri family. She remembers so much about the previous world – the Dreamtime, the ancestors, and the knowing – but she also harbours a dark pain that is becoming almost too much to bear.

'And then Evie meets James, a young man radiating pure love who fills her life with light. On the cusp of adulthood, with their whole lives ahead of them, they travel to Evie’s beloved country, the central west of New South Wales and the Riverina regions. Swimming in the waters of the Kalare, as known by the Wiradjuri, and in the Murrumbidgee, singing with her ancestors, listening to the spirits.

'The new world created between Evie and James is one they did not know they were missing. Now they can’t leave it alone. They are no longer separate – they are one, they are whole together – until a sudden event leaves them seeking answers to one of life’s most eternal questions: is love strong enough to withstand anything?

'An intense and mesmerising story of first love and longing, suffused with Wiradjuri Dreaming, family and culture, about a future dreamt and a future taken, by an important new voice in Australian fiction.' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award
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