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Peter Skrzynecki (born April 6, 1945 in Germany) is an Australian poet of Polish/Ukrainian origin. He came to Australia with his parents in 1949 as a refugee from "the sorrow/ Of northern wars." (Crossing the Red Sea). This voyage -- a four-week sea expedition on the "General Blatchford", a converted United States Navy transport ship -- was the basis for many of the poems in his 1975 collection, Immigrant Chronicle. He has taught various courses relating to literature, including English Studies, American Literature, Australian Literature and Creative Writing. He has received several awards for his contributions to the literature of Australia and to multicultural literature, including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize in 1972 for Headwaters, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Poetry Prize, the Henry Lawson Short Story Award, an Order of Cultural Merit from the Polish government in 1989 and, in 2002, an Order of Australia. Immigrant Chronicle is on the HSC English syllabus.

Bibliography

Poetry

Novels

Memoir

External Links

Australian Literature Resources website. Contains information on many Australian writers, including Skrzynecki.

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