Collection 2: Antigone Kefala further papers, 1963-2003

MLMSS 9122

sub-fonds

1963-2003

Textual Records, Moving Images

457581

0.33 metres of textual material (2 boxes)

Romanian-born of Greek parents, Antigone Kefala has lived in Australia since 1980. She has worked as an arts administrator, a teacher of English as a second language and is a prominent commentator on Australian multicultural writing. Since 1973 she has published six books of poetry and several novels. She is widely represented in Australian anthologies.

The collection includes correspondence, being mainly letters received, with Patrick White, Manoly Lascaris, Judith Wright, John Blight, Margaret Diesendorf, Rosemary Dobson, Alec Bolton, Nikos Kypraios, Elizabeth Harrower, Chitra Fernando, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Vaso Kalamaros, Leonidas Kalamaras and Patricia Kennedy; travel notebooks, 1975-2003, describing and commenting on Kefala's journeys to Europe mainly to attend writers' conferences and festivals; and 3 DVDs of Kefala's readings and interviews, 1982-1989

BOX 1
TRAVEL NOTEBOOKS

2 travel notebooks: handwritten notes on London, Paris, Rome, Athens, 17 April-25 May 1975
London: trip to Manning Tree to see Randolph Stow; Paris: trip to Versailles; Rome: trip to Tivoli; Athens: trip to Heraklion, Crete

2 travel notebooks: handwritten notes on London, Paris, Florence, Athens, 15 April-20 May 1978
Athens: trips to Delphi, Mycene, Epidaurous

1 travel notebook: handwritten notes on Paris, Madrid, Sitges, Athens, 1-30 Apr. 1984
Madrid: trip to Toleda; Sitges: reading at the EACLALS Conference in Sitges, 9-14 April, at the conference, papers by Veronica Brady, Anna Rutherford, reading with Desmond O’Grady and others.

7 travel notebooks: handwritten notes on London, Lincoln, Venice, Athens, 28 June-18 August 1988
London: Lincoln to take part in the Bicentennial conference held in the Lincoln Cathedral; papers by Bernard Smith, Sneja Gunew, reading with Fay Zwicky, Colin Johnson and others.

1 travel notebook: handwritten notes on London, Canterbury, Paris, Athens, 25 August-18 October 1989
London: read at Voice Box, Southbank Centre, then at Kent University, part of the ACLALS Conference; Paris: trip to Chartres

3 travel notebooks: handwritten notes on Prague, Athens, 18 Apr.-2 June 1998
Read at Prague Writers’ Festival; launch of the bilingual ‘Absence’, English-Czech, translated by Alexandra Buchler, published by One Woman Press; Athens: trips to Hydra and Olympia

3 travel notebooks: handwritten notes on Helsinki, Prague, Berlin, Athens, 10 June- 26 July 2003
Helsinki: gave paper at the LAF Conference, read, then part of LAHTLI International Writers’ Reunion, read; Berlin: part of Poesiefestival, one week of translation with Austrian writer, readings, recorded for Lyrikline.

BOX 2
CORRESPONDENCE

Folder labelled Dimitris Tsaloumas, being letters and cards in Greek and English, 1978-2000; draft typescript with annotations of ‘The Son of Kyr Saki’, 1976

Folder labelled ‘Chitra Fernando’, being typescript and handwritten cards and letters, 1989-1996

Folder labelled Patrick White, being handwritten letter received from Patrick White, 9 Sep. 1969, and 7 handwritten letters and cards from Manoli Lascaris

Folder labelled John Blight’ being 9 typescript and handwritten letters received from Blight, with 2 replies by Kefala, 1974-1976

Folder labelled Margaret Diesendorf, being typescript and handwritten letters and cards received from Diesendorf, 1971-1992; photocopies of 3 articles written by Diesendorf, no date

Folder labelled Judith Wright, being 3 handwritten and 2 typescript letters received from Judith Wright; typescript poem by Wright; ca. 1963-1966

Folder labelled Rosemary Dobson and Alec Bolton, being 2 handwritten postcards received from Dobson, 1986; 3 handwritten and typescript letters received from Bolton regarding photographs, 1987

Folder labelled Nikos Kypraios, being typescript and handwritten letters and cards in Greek received from Kypraios; newscuttings; photocopies of journal articles; invitations; art catalogues; ca. 1978-1987

Folder labelled ‘Elizabeth Harrower’, being handwritten and typescript letters and cards received from Harrower, 1971-2000

Folder labelled ‘Patricia Kennedy’, being typescript and handwritten correspondence, and photocopies of theatre reviews, 1976-1996

Folder labelled ‘Vasso and Leonida Kalamaras’, being handwritten cards and letters in Greek, art exhibition catalogues, invitations, newscuttings, 1980-1986

Folder labelled ‘Randolph Stow’, being typescript libretto of ‘The Green Children’, 1969

Printed material: ‘Nikos Kypraios: a decade’, introductory essay by G. Michelakakis, translated by E.K. Robins, Mt. Evelyn, Vic. : Hayle Mill (Editions), 1981; Cousins, Chitra Fernando, Sydney : Estate of Chitra Fernando, 1999

VIDEO RECORDINGS
File 1: Antigone Kefala readings and interviews, 1982-1989.
MLOH 729

English, Greek, Modern (1453- )

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