Alex Skovron

Alex Skovron (born June 12, 1948 in Chorzów ) is an Australian poet of Polish-Jewish origin.

Skovron first went to Israel with his parents in late 1956 before coming to Australia in 1958. He attended Randwick Boys High School from 1961 to 1966 and studied political science until 1970 at the University of New South Wales (Bachelor) and until 1972 at the University of Sydney (Master). From 1972 to 1977 he was the editorial staff of The Australian Encyclopaedia , from 1977 to 1979 chief editor of The Concise Encyclopaedia of Australia . After a stay abroad in 1979 he worked for the publishers Macmillan , Century Hutchinson and Dent / Houghton Mifflin .

In addition to several volumes of poetry, Skovran also published short stories and wrote a novel. He has received the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry (1983), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award (1995 and 2001), the Manuel Gelman Memorial Prize for Literature (1997) and the Kyneton Literature Festival Poetry Prize (2002), among others .

Works

• The Rearrangement , 1988
• Sleeve Notes , 1992
• Infinite City: 100 Sonnetinas , 1999
• Chess and other Poems , 2002
• The Man and the Map , 2003
• Autographs: 56 Poems in Prose , 2008

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• John Arnold, John Hay: The Bibliography of Australian Literature: PZ , Univ. of Queensland Press, 2009, ISBN 9780702240317 , p. 366
• Oxford Index - Alex Skovran
• Austlit - Alex Skovran
• Poetry Library - Alex Skovron
• Jewish Australia - Alex Skovron