Fiction, 9781923106277
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Immigrant voices, haunting memories, and dreams: Kefala’s fiction unveiled.
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    382 pages

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    31 March 2025

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Summary

Echoes of a Life: The Collected Shorter Fiction of Antigone Kefala

The 2022 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the late Antigone Kefala was one of the first writers to open Australian fiction to a diversity of voices. She is known for her nuanced and evocative prose style, which portrays the full gamut of the immigrant experience: the fleeing from war, the resettlement in foreign countries, the difficult negotiation of personal relationships, the hauntings of memory and …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923106277
ISBN-10:1923106279
Author:Antigone Kefala, Mireille Juchau
Publisher:Giramondo Publishing Co
Imprint:Giramondo Publishing Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:382
Release Date:31 March 2025
Weight:420g
Dimensions:34mm x 210mm x 150mm
About The Author

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala published five poetry collections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebook, Absence: New and Selected Poems and Fragments, which won the 2017 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry. She is also renowned as a writer of journals; these were published in two collections, Sydney Journals (2008), and Late Journals (2022). In November 2022 she received the Patrick White Literary Award, in recognition of her contribution to Australian literature. She died in December 2022, at the age of 91.

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