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i (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 converteItalic textlink title

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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

• There, Behind the Lids (1970)
• Headlands (1972)
• Immigrant Chronicle (1975)
• The Aviary (1978)
• The Polish Immigrant (1982)
• Night Swim (1989)
• Easter Sunday (1993
• Time's Revenge (2000)

Novels

• The Beloved Mountain (1988)
• The Cry of the Goldfinch (1996)

Memoir

• Sparrow Garden (2004)

External Links

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

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