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Availability:In StockContributor:Antigone KefalaPublish date:3/10/2026Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Transit BooksISBN-13:9798893380255UPC:9798893380255Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDVGXDDCY

A thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.

Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia's best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced to flee following the occupation by the Soviet Union, escaping first to refugee camps in Greece before moving to New Zealand and then finally Australia in 1959, where she lived until her death.

As she grew into her career as a writer, she situated herself within Sydney's artistic and intellectual milieu, publishing poetry and fiction. She also kept a diary for over thirty years, portraying a world sustained by conversation and friendship, and by reflection, on books and paintings, plays and films, and literary fortune.

For Kefala, Sydney Journals was a literary project, culled from decades of recordkeeping and shaped by austere and frank observations that beam with poignancy and humor. What is left is a rare document of the domestic and public life of the period, of an aging writer and her companions, and the dramatic beauty of the city and its landscapes.

Intimate in its recollections, social in nature, the Journals establishes Antigone Kefala as one of literature's great diarists.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Transit BooksISBN-13:9798893380255UPC:9798893380255Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Memoirs, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDVGXDDCY

Antigone Kefala (1931-2022) wrote three works of fiction, The First Journey, The Island and Alexia, and 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. Her collections of journals are Summer Visit, Sydney Journals and Late Journals, her final work. She was the recipient of the 2022 Patrick White Literary Award.


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