Dylan Van Den Berg wins the 2022 Kate Challis RAKA Award for his play 'Milk'

Congratulations to Dylan Van Den Berg on winning the 2022 Kate Challis RAKA Award for his play 'Milk'

The Kate Challis Ruth Adeney Koori Award, or RAKA, which means 'five' in the Pintupi language, is awarded annually to an Indigenous artist for a work in one of five categories: creative prose, poetry, script writing, drama and visual arts.

Associate Professor Sana Nakata, one of the judges of the 2022 RAKA Award, said of the work:

“The exploitation of temporality produces an extraordinary atmosphere in which the conversation is no simple ghost story nor a laboured history retold. Talking with ancestors is instead made strangely familiar, a type of everyday comfort, an act of making sense of oneself in the world.”

Associate Professor Nakata commended the work as “ambitious and expertly crafted”.

The play is available for purchase here from Currency Press.