Jelena Dinic Jelena Dinic i(A139415 works by)
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1993
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BiographyHistory

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia during the collapse of Yugoslavia. She was held residencies at Varuna, and has edited anthologies for the Friendly Street Poets. In 2016, she was teaching at the Serbian Ethnic School.

She writes in both English and Serbian.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon In the Room with the She Wolf Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2021 23056542 2021 selected work poetry

'Jelena Dinic came to Australia during the collapse of the war-torn former Yugoslavia and her poems are created from fractured landscapes. Winner of the 2019 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, this collection beautifully charts the territory where cultures, languages and family life intersect. Dinic publishes in both Serbian and English.'

Source : publication summary
2022 winner ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
2020 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award
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