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y separately published work icon Personal Score multi chapter work   autobiography   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Personal Score
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'Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that confirms, once again, van Neerven’s unrivalled talent, courage and originality.

'Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises.

'With emotional honesty and searing insight, van Neerven shines a light on sport on this continent from a queer First Nations perspective, revealing how some athletes have long challenged mainstream views and used their roles to effect change not only in their own realm, but in society more broadly.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this book contains some names and references to people who are now deceased. References are made out of respect and to honour their memory.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Columbus, Ohio,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Two Dollar Radio ,
      2024 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 340p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 9 April 2024.
      ISBN: 9781953387455 (pbk), 9781953387462 (ebk)

Works about this Work

Settling Scores Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2024;

'In the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.'

Book Review : Personal Score, Ellen Van Neerven Dorcas Maphakela , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Personal Score Ellen van Neerven , 2023 multi chapter work autobiography essay

'Ellen Van Neervan's latest book is a non-fiction about the nexus between sport, culture and identity.'

Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2023;

'When I contacted Ellen van Neerven in May to see if they would talk with me about Personal Score, I was working in a bookstore. The new release, with its distinctive earth-toned, soccer ball-patterned cover, was piled in different places in the shop: facing out in Australian Studies, propped up in the window-seat, sitting on the counter. It seemed to migrate as well. One week it was in a NAIDOC display, nestled among First Nations new releases and classics, including van Neerven’s debut story collection Heat and Light. At another point it found a home in our queer writing display. As the Women’s FIFA Football World Cup approached, it could well have found a place next to Sam Kerr’s My Journey to the World Cup or the upbeat board book I Can Be a Matilda.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon Ellen Van Neerven on Racism and Misogyny in Sport Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2023 26352138 2023 single work podcast interview

'Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction.

'Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They have written two poetry collections: Comfort Food, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize, and Throat, which was shortlisted in 2021 for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.' (Introduction)

What Does It Mean to Play Sport on First Nations Land? Ellen Van Neerven Explores Sovereignty and Survival on the Sporting Field Chelsea Watego , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 May 2023;

— Review of Personal Score Ellen van Neerven , 2023 multi chapter work autobiography essay
What Does It Mean to Play Sport on First Nations Land? Ellen Van Neerven Explores Sovereignty and Survival on the Sporting Field Chelsea Watego , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 May 2023;

— Review of Personal Score Ellen van Neerven , 2023 multi chapter work autobiography essay
Book Review : Personal Score, Ellen Van Neerven Dorcas Maphakela , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Personal Score Ellen van Neerven , 2023 multi chapter work autobiography essay

'Ellen Van Neervan's latest book is a non-fiction about the nexus between sport, culture and identity.'

y separately published work icon Ellen Van Neerven on Racism and Misogyny in Sport Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2023 26352138 2023 single work podcast interview

'Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction.

'Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They have written two poetry collections: Comfort Food, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize, and Throat, which was shortlisted in 2021 for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.' (Introduction)

Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2023;

'When I contacted Ellen van Neerven in May to see if they would talk with me about Personal Score, I was working in a bookstore. The new release, with its distinctive earth-toned, soccer ball-patterned cover, was piled in different places in the shop: facing out in Australian Studies, propped up in the window-seat, sitting on the counter. It seemed to migrate as well. One week it was in a NAIDOC display, nestled among First Nations new releases and classics, including van Neerven’s debut story collection Heat and Light. At another point it found a home in our queer writing display. As the Women’s FIFA Football World Cup approached, it could well have found a place next to Sam Kerr’s My Journey to the World Cup or the upbeat board book I Can Be a Matilda.' (Introduction)

Settling Scores Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2024;

'In the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.'

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