Collection 3: Antigone Kefala further papers, approximately 1961-2013

MLMSS 11109

sub-fonds

approximately 1961-2013

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

9650089

2.30 metres of textual material (14 boxes) - manuscript, typescript

Antigone Kefala was born in Braila, Romania, in 1935. Died 3 December 2022. Her parents were Greek, and the family moved to Greece then to New Zealand after World War II. After graduating with an Arts degree and MA from Victoria University, Wellington, she moved to NSW in the early 1960s. Kefala has produced works in poetry, short fiction, novellas, novels, essays and autobiographical works, including a selection from her diaries, and is widely represented in Australian anthologies.

References:
Giramondo publishing. 'Antigone Kefala'. Accessed 10 December 2021. https://giramondopublishing.com/authors/antigone-kefala/
Library acquisition file

The collection comprises correspondence with publishers, authors, academics, artists, musicians and photographers, including Fay Zwicky, Elizabeth Harrower, Randolph Stow, Ivor Indyk and Peter Lyssiotis, among others; copy-edited and annotated manuscripts proofs; reviews and typed journals. Also includes several photographs and drawings.

BOX 1
Correspondence, 1961-1978

BOX 2
Correspondence, 1979-1986

BOX 3
Correspondence, 1987-1989

BOX 4
Correspondence, 1990-1991

BOX 5
Correspondence, 1992-1993

BOXES 6-7
Correspondence, 1994-1996

BOXES 8-9
Correspondence, 1997-1999

BOX 10
'Sydney journals: reflections 1970-2000', proofs and draft copies of manuscript, 2006
'Max: The Confessions of a Cat', manuscript proofs, correspondence, letters to editors, illustrations by Warwick Hatton, Greek translation with handwritten edits, small mock-up of bilingual version; 1994-2005; rejection letters by publishers.

BOX 11
'Max: The Confessions of a Cat' (continued)
'The Island', printed proof, no edits, approximately 1984
'Absence : new and selected poems', Czech-English edition, and Prague Festival April 1998; correspondence, publishing and launch; 1992-1998
'Men for the rights of man rise: a poetic manifesto', by I.P. Koutsocheras, translated by Antigone Kefala; photocopy, no edits, approximately 1974
Romanian translations, includes printed translations with manuscript edits, correspondence, 2009
'Far Far away and other Romanian tales', translated by Antigone Kefala, approximately 2013
'Seconds' by Yiannis Ritsos, translated by Antigone Kefala; manuscripts and proofs, printed, some manuscript edits, approximately 2005

BOX 12
Programme (daily reminders) typed, manuscript notes, lists all the events, work updates, meetings, letters sent, and approaches to publishers made by Kefala, 1983-2001
Lucian Boz story translated from Romanian by Antigone Kefala, manuscript, 2002
'Alexia', manuscripts and proofs (English), approximately 1982
'Alexia', manuscripts and proofs (Greek), 1990-1995
'The Island', proofs of trilingual edition (English, French, Greek) and correspondence, includes small drawings for book and photographs of illustrations, 2000-2003
'Wayfarers and other poems' (Wagtail Series, 95 : Picaro Press), proofs and correspondence, 2010

BOX 13
'Antigone Kefala : a writer's journey', edited by Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas, proof, approximately 2013
Amanda Simons' interview with Antigone Kefala for HEAT magazine, proofs and correspondence, 2010
Correspondence with copies of poems and prose sent and responses, 1986-2000
'Summer visit' and 'Intimacy', correspondence, reviews; 'Summer visit II', correspondence and reviews; 1996-2004
'Mouth to mouth : contemporary German poetry in translation', manuscript and correspondence, 2004

BOX 14
'Sydney Journals Part 1' (2006); 'Sydney Journals Part II' (2008), manuscripts, 2006-2008
'The Island', translations in French by Marie Gaulis, manuscript and correspondence, 1995-1996
'Waiting' and 'Breakdown', short stories published Southerly, Summer (1994-1995) vol. 54 no. 4 1994; (p. 30-33); manuscripts and correspondence, 1994
Original typed Journals with manuscript edits

PUBLISHED BOOKS
13 published books from this collection catalogued separately

English, Greek, Modern (1453- ), Czech

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