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Summer Visit
Fiction

120 pages
Paperback, 21 x 12.5 cm
Published March 2003
ISBN 957831153

Summer Visit

Antigone Kefala

Summer Visit is a collection of three novellas by the distinguished Australian poet Antigone Kefala.

‘Intimacy’, charts the breakdown of a marriage. ‘Conversations with Mother’ is a portrait of grief. Between these stories of crisis, ‘Summer Visit’ speaks of memory and the past as a living force.

All exhibit the remarkable combination of clarity, intensity and spareness, for which Kefala is renowned.

[Kefala’s fiction] blurs the boundaries between the short story and the novella, while also drawing on poetry in their expressive compression and figurative richness…Journeys are a constant in her oeuvre, movement across space and, via memory and dreams, across time.
Judges’ citation, Patrick White Literary Award

About the Author

Author Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala (1931–2022) wrote three works of fiction, The First Journey, The Island and Alexia, and five poetry collections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebook, Absence: New and Selected Poems, and Fragments, which won the 2017 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry. Her collections of journals are Summer Visit, Sydney Journals and Late Journals, her final work. She was the recipient of the 2022 Patrick White Literary Award. Two commemorative volumes celebrating Kefala’s writing, a poetry and fiction collection respectively, were published by Giramondo in April 2025.

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Antigone Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Literary Award

‘I am full of admiration for Patrick White, and for the encouragement he has given to Australian writers. I met him several times and liked him. I am very honoured to receive this prestigious award given in his name, and the recognition it offers, as for a long time my writing has existed outside the major lines of Australian literature.’

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Publisher note: Late Journals by Antigone Kefala

Kefala had been writing down her impressions from the period when her family was first displaced from Romania to Greece after WWII, but the physical journals which provide the raw materials for her published Journals date from the early 1970s (her first poetry collection, The Alien, was published in 1973, her first work of fiction, The First Journey, in 1975).

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