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Australian writer and editor

Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946^{[citation needed]}) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.

Life

Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Papua New Guinea) before arriving in Australia in 1971.^[1] She studied for an undergraduate degree at the Australian National University before completing a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales which was published as Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945 (1981).^{[citation needed]}

Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are Poppy (1990), a fictionalised biography of her mother, and Stravinsky's Lunch (2001), a feminist reappraisal of the lives and work of Australian painters Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith. She has also edited several volumes of stories, poems and essays, including the work of Lesbia Harford and a 'Focus on Papua New Guinea' issue for the literary magazine Meanjin.^[2]

In 2006, Modjeska was a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney, "investigating the interplay of race, gender and the arts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea".^[3]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

• —— (1979). Women Writers: A Study in Australian Cultural History, 1920–1939.
• —— (1981). Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945.
• —— (1989). Inner Cities: Australian Women's Memory of Place.
• —— (1999). Stravinsky's Lunch. Picador. ISBN .
• —— (2002). Timepieces. Sydney: Picador. ISBN .
• —— (2005). The Green in Glass: The Work of Janet Laurence. Sydney: Pesaro.
• —— (2015). Second Half First.

Edited

Book reviews

• Modjeska, Drusilla (March 2009). "Arise!". The Monthly. 43: 60–62. Review of Philip Roth, Indignation.

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