Natalie Harkin, winner of the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award. Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence the colony has inflicted on Indigenous women, and offers a roadmap for healing in the centuries ahead. Congratulations to the 2020 winner, Natalie Harkin and to the highly commended poets Ali Cobby Eckermann and Kirli Saunders.” Professor Varney said. The Kate Challis RAKA Award was first awarded in 1991 to help advance recognition of Aboriginal artistic achievements. After his wife’s death, Professor Smith sold an art collection they had massed over their lifetime to set up the RAKA.
