Susan Varga papers relating to her book, Heddy & Me, 1989-1994

MLMSS 8099

fonds

1989-1994

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

90410

0.60 metres of textual material (4 boxes)
32 sound cassettes

Susan Varga was born in Hungary in 1943 and came to Australia with her mother, Heddy, her sister and her stepfather in 1948. Her book, Heddy and Me (1994), explores, in part, her mother’s life as a Hungarian Jew during World War II, and their shared bond as Holocaust survivors in post-war Australia. The book won the 1994 Fellowship Australian Writers’ Christina Stead Award for biography.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

BOX 1
‘Index of Translation of Tapes’, being folder of index in English of interviews

3 ring folders of verbatim transcriptions in English of interviews with her mother in Hungarian at CYMLOH 174/1-32

BOX 2
‘Rough Notes Written in Hungary’, being notebook

‘First Pieces / Sept 89 – 2 June 90 / Basis for Heddy & Me / Reaction Pieces’, being folder of annotated and corrected computer typescript

‘Pieces Written in Hungary 1990 – mostly Diary’, being folder of mainly manuscript and computer typescript diary entries

‘Draft One…’, Feb. 1991-Aug. 1992, being seven folders of annotated and corrected computer printouts of Parts 1-6

BOX 3
‘Draft 2…’, being four folders of annotated and corrected computer printouts of Parts 1-4

‘Various Discarded Versions’, being four folders of annotated and corrected computer printouts

BOX 4
Set of initial page proofs of Heddy and Me, Nov. Dec. 1993, being A3 printout with author’s corrections, 5 Jan. 1994

Set of final page proofs of Heddy and Me, 3-7 Feb. 1994, being A3 printout

English, Hungarian

Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: Susan Varga
Research & study copies allowed: Permission granted by copyright holder
Rights and Restrictions Information:: No publication without prior written approval of copyright holder
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Susan Varga

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