Alice Bellette Alice Bellette i(8233227 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Palawa / Tasmanian
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BiographyHistory

Alice Bellette is a Palawa descendant, a poet, musician and scholar based in Melbourne. In 2021, she was undertaking a PhD in literary studies. She is also the creator of the limited-series podcast Welcome?, which explores colonised landscapes.

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Personal Awards

2023 highly commended ASAL Awards A. D. Hope Prize for '"White Nativity": Reinscribing Aboriginal Land in the poetry of Araluen and Whittaker'.
2021 winner Ultimo Prize Poetry

Awards for Works

Blood and Bone : Unsettling the Settler in Aboriginal Gothic 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 76 2022; (p. 255-264)

'I’M SURE that without giving a specific example you would be able to generate a mental image of gothic horror, even if it resembles something like Bela Lugosi as Dracula or Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster – images that have been immortalised (pun intended) in the collective conscious by the success of Universal Studios’ early 1930s run of pre-code genre cinema.' (Introduction)

2023 highly commended ASAL Awards Rosemary Van den Berg Prize for First Nations Criticism
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