Drusilla Modjeska

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Drusilla Modjeska

Born 17 October 1946 (1946-10-17) (age 61)
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Occupation Writer and editor

Drusilla Modjeska (born 17 October 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.

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[edit] Life

Drusilla Modjeska was born in England and lived in Papua New Guinea before arriving in Australia in 1971.[1] She studied at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales completing a PhD which was published as Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 (1981).

Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are Poppy (1990), a fictionalised biography of her mother, and Stravinsky's Lunch (2001), a feminist reappraisal of the lives and work of Australian painters Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith. She has also edited several volumes of stories, poems and essays, including the work of Lesbia Harford and a ‘Focus on Papua New Guinea’ issue for the literary magazine Meanjin.[2]

In 2006 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, “investigating the interplay of race, gender and the arts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea”.[3]

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Novels

Non-fiction

  • Women Writers: A study in Australian cultural history, 1920-1939. (1979)
  • Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1925-1945. (1981)
  • Inner Cities: Australian women's memory of place. (1989)
  • Stravinsky's Lunch. (Picador, 2001) ISBN 0-330-36186-4 Review
  • Timepieces. (Picador, 2002) ISBN 0330363727 ReviewSMH Review 2002
  • The Green in Glass: The work of Janet Laurence. (Sydney: Pesaro, 2005)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Modjeska, Drusilla. AustLit. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
  2. ^ Meanjin Back Issue. Meanjin. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
  3. ^ Research Fellows. University of Sydney (2006-03-29). Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
  4. ^ Walter McRae Russell Award for the best work of literary scholarship. Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

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NAME Modjeska, Drusilla
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australian writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 17 October 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH
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