Born: Established: 1946 London,
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England,c
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United Kingdom (UK),c
Western Europe,
Europe,
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Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Grants awarded to Lesley Lebkowicz:
artsACT: $2 600 to work on a collection of poetry,1998.
artsACT: $1 400 to publish a collection of short fiction, 2001.
artsACT: $10 000 to write the first draft of River Water Rain, 2003.
artsACT: $10 000 to research and write the first draft of The Petrov Poems, 2007.
Personal Awards
- 2013 winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize
- 2003 winner ArtsACT Poetry Award Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize
Awards for Works
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The Petrov Poems
Sydney
:
Pitt Street Poetry
,
2013
6152815
2013
novel
'This gripping new verse novel charts the course of the espionage scandal which rocked sleepy Canberra and the nation in the mid 1950s.
'In April 1954 Australia woke up to discover that Volodya Petrov,an attaché in the Russian embassy in Canberra, was also a colonel in the KGB and was planning to defect. The Petrov Poems charts the unfolding web of intrigue between Petrov, the embassy staff, and his contacts in the West. And the crucial role of his wife Dusya, thrust into a terrible crisis of conscience as the result of her husband’s actions and her past personal history.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2014 winner ACT Writing and Publishing Awards — Poetry
- 2014 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
- 2013 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing
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