DYLAN Van Den Berg and his auntie, Gaye Doolan, make a formidable double act.
He’s the up-and-coming actor and playwright who just snared the coveted Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the Griffin Award and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award in 2020.
She’s the former chair of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, and the Environment Reconciliation Action Plan Committee at the ANU Medical School, and now works with the National Cultural Educators and Cultural Mentors Network.
Both identify as Palawa Tasmanian Aboriginal Australians from the north-east of Tasmania, and both are linked through a close ancestral relationship, although Doolan prefers to call herself “more like his great-aunt”.
Dylan Van Den Berg… won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.
CANBERRAâS Dylan Van Den Berg took out the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for “Milk” at the NSW Premierâs Literary Awards yesterday (April 26).
Van Den Berg accepted the award at the State Library of NSW, where a total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prizes.
Van Den Bergâs win was announced alongside people such as Ellen van Neerven, who won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year, and Kate Grenville, who won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
The third was Van Den Bergâs win.
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