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Liz Hobday

Indigenous poet claims richest state book prize

Evelyn Araluen won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her poetry collection The Rot. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Australia's richest state literary prize has gone to Evelyn Araluen, with her latest collection described by judges as a work of remarkable poetic intelligence.

Goorie/Koori poet Araluen won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for The Rot at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards on Wednesday night in Melbourne.

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