Alex Skovron

Alex Skovron (1945- ) is a Jewish-Australian poet.

Life
Skovron was born in Chorzow, Poland (near Katowice). His family left Poland in 1956, living in Israel for a year before coming to Australian in March 1958. He received a B.A. from the University of New South Wales, followed by an M.A. from the University of Sydney. After graduation he worked for the Australian Encyclopedia, then became general editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Australia''. In 1979 he moved to Melbourne, where he worked for Macmillan, Hutchinson, Dent, and Houghton, Mifflin. He now works as a freelance editor.

Skovron lives in Melbourne with his wife, Ruth, and their two children, Marissa and Jonathan.

Skovron began writing in the late 1960s, and publishing in the early 1980s. As of 2012 he had published five collections of poetry, plus a novella, The Poet.

Recognition
Skovron won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry in 1983, the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award in 1995 and 2001, the Manuel Gelman Memorial Prize for Literature in 1997, and the Kyneton Literature Festival Poetry Prize in 2002. His first collection, ''The Rearrangement (1988), won the Anne Elder Award and the Mary Gilmore Prize.