Antigone Kefala
Author

Poems

The Place english

Translations: de

Family english

Beer Garden english

Translations: fa zh

Coming Home english

Translations: de fa

Transfiguration english

Nameless english

Song english

Translations: de fa

They Are Still Coming english

Blood english

Translations: de fa tr

Ceremony english

Translations: de fa

Antigone Kefala
Author

About

* 28.05.1935, Braila, Romania
lives in: , Australia

Antigone Kefala was born in 1935 in Braila, Romania, to Greek parents. The family were resetlled in Greece after the war, and then migrated to New Zealand (this is the subject of her poem ‘The Place’). She gained a BA and an MA in French Literature at Victoria University in Wellington. Since 1960 she has lived in Australia.

Kefala has published four books of poetry, The Alien (1973), Thirsty Weather (1978), European Notebook (1988) and Absence (1992, 2nd edition 1998); and four books of prose, The First Journey (1975), The Island (1984), Alexia (1984), and most recently, Summer Visit: Three Novellas (Giramondo, 2002). Her poetry and prose has also been published in bilingual English-Greek and English-Czech editions, and in a trilingual English-French-Greek edition.

Kefala’s poetry is remarkable in Australian writing for its uncompromising asceticism of means, its austerity and understatement, and its surreal intensity.