Fay Zwicky

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Fay Zwicky (born 1933) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Fay Zwicky was born and grew up in Melbourne where she began writing as a student at Melbourne University.[1] She has since been a concert pianist and lectured in American and comparative literature at University of Western Australia until her retirement. After which she has concentrated on writing, achieving international recognition. The exploration of her Jewish heritage is a recurrent motif in her work. Though she does not confine herself thematically, encompassing more recently, for example, the work of Japanese printmaker Hokusai.

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[edit] Awards and Nominations

In 2004 Fay Zwicky was declared a Western Australian “Living Treasure”, which she considers to be “a most repulsive term”[2]. Her most recent collection of poems is Picnic, published in 2006.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

Short Stories

Criticism

  • The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984 (UWAP, 1986) ISBN 0-85564-267-X

[edit] External sources

[edit] References

  1. ^ Faye Zwicky (sic.) at Australian Literary Resources
  2. ^ The Age 12th November 2005


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NAME Zwicky, Fay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australian poet and academic
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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