Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala (born 28 May 1935) is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage.

Life
Born in Brăila, Romania in 1935, Antigone Kefala moved with her family to Greece after World War II, and then to New Zealand in 1951. after World War II. She graduated from Victoria University, and received an Master of Arts (postgraduate)M.A. from Victoria in 1960.

In 1960 she relocated to Australia, where she has worked as a university and arts administrator. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

Writing
Her poetry and prose is written in both Greek and English, with Absence: New and Selected Poems reissued in a second edition in 1998. Her work is characterised by an austere allusiveness unusual in Australian poetry. Aside from Greek and English it has been translated into Czech and French.

Poetry

 * The Alien (Makar Press: 1973)
 * Thirsty Weather (Outback: 1978)
 * European Notebook (Hale & Iremonger: 1988)
 * Absence: New and selected poems (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger: 1992, 2nd ed. 1998)

Prose fiction

 * The First Journey (Wild & Woolley: 1975)
 * The Island (Hale & Iremonger: 1984)
 * Summer visit: Three Novellas (Giramondo, 2003)
 * Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) ISBN 978-1-920882-41-9