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

Item

Title
Collection 3: Antigone Kefala further papers, approximately 1961-2013
Subject
Greek letters
Australian letter
Photographs
Art
Correspondence
Voyages and travels
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
6. End of the Cold War
Author
Kefala, Antigone
Keywords
Greeks in Australia
multiculturalism
translation
Person
Kefala, Antigone
Current holder
State Library of New South Wales
Period of reference 
1961 – 2013
Link
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AXRQen
Item number
MLMSS 11109
Access rights
Request from onsite storage
Country of origin
Australia
Language 
Greek (Modern)
Czech
English
Description from source
Scope and Contents

Contents
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
Physical format
Letters
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Photographs
Abstract 
Extensive and well-organized collection of 14 boxes including copies of poems and literature work, newspaper extracts, correspondence with publishers, editors in Australia and overseas, universities' administrators, work translations from English to Greek and French, (Τhe island- Το νησί), published books, Greek manuscript ('Alexia', manuscripts and proofs (Greek), 1990-1995), personal notes, art - ink on paper,
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/726/
Date accessed
January 19, 2023