Lee Cataldi
Lee Cataldi(born 1942) is a contemporaryAustralianpoetandlinguist.
Lee Cataldi | |
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| Born | Lee A. Sonnino 1942 (age 81–82) Sydney,Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, linguist |
| Spouse | Gianni Cataldi |
Biography
[edit]Cataldi (née Sonnino) was born inSydneyduringWorld War IIwhen, owing to her father’sItalianheritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'.[1]As a child she lived inHobart,moving back to Sydney for university. She won the University Medal, publishing her thesis as A Handbook to Sixteenth Century Rhetoric (by Lee A. Sonnino). She studied at Cambridge before meeting her future husband Italian Gianni Cataldi. Since returning to Australia in the 1970s Cataldi has worked as a teacher and a linguist, onIndigenous Australianlanguages inHalls Creek,Alice SpringsandBalgo.In the late sixties she travelled toItalyandEnglandwhere she became asocialist,inspired by theMay 1968 uprising in France.[citation needed]
Cataldi's first book of poems,Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party,was published in 1978, winning theAnne Elder Memorial Prizein that year.Women who live on the ground(1990) received theHuman Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionPoetry Award; it was also short-listed for theNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.Race against time(1998) won the 1999Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.[2]
In 1998 Cataldi travelled toMadras,India,for an Asialink Literature Residency.[3]
She currently[when?]lives inSouth Australia.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party,Wild & Woolley,1978.
- Women who live on the ground: Poems, 1978-1988,Penguin Australia,1990.
- Race against time: Poems,Penguin Australia, 1998.
Non-fiction
[edit]- Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia.Coll. and trans. withPeggy Rockman Napaljarri,Schwartz,2003.ISBN0-7619-8992-7
References
[edit]- ^"Lee Cataldi (1942 - )".Thylazine. Archived fromthe originalon 4 October 2006.Retrieved11 March2007.
- ^"1990 Human Rights Medal and Awards".Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.Archived fromthe originalon 16 February 2007.Retrieved11 March2007.
- ^"Literature Past Residents - India".Asialink (University of Melbourne). 24 November 2006. Archived fromthe originalon 17 June 2007.Retrieved11 March2007.
Further reading
[edit]- Spurr, Barry 1994.The poetry of Lee Cataldi.ISBN0-646-17733-8
External links
[edit]- 6 poemsat Thylazine
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