Tatjana Lukić (born 25 August 1959 in Osijek, former Yugoslavia, died 10 August 2008 in Canberra, ACT) was a Croatia born Australian poetry editor and poet.
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Tatjana Lukić was born in the former Yugoslavia (Croatia) where she spent her first 33 years. She received degrees in philosophy and sociology from Sarajevo University, and lived in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and the Czech Republic before leaving the region during the Balkan wars in Croatia and Bosnia. In 1992 she arrived, with her young family, as a refugee in Australia. She did not speak English, but learned the language, studied and worked.
Prior to her move to Australia, Lukić had published poetry books throughout former Yugoslavia,[1] and won national poetry awards. In recent years she started to write again, now in English. Her English poems have appeared in international literary journals, such as Gangway, SubtleTea, and Versal. In 2005 she was guest editor of Gangway #36 - Home and Homecoming.[2]
Lukić lived in Canberra with her daughter Jelena, when cancer ended her life in 2008. Laurie Duggan wrote about her poetry: "these poems written in their author's second language have a certainty about them that belies the difficulties Lukić must have encountered at all stages of her writing life. They are tough, tender, resilient. It is so much more than a great pity that her first book in English[3] should also be her last."