Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka i(A17754 works by)
Born: Established: 19 Jan 1910
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Poland,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 2008 Perth, Western Australia,
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1950
Heritage: Polish ; Polish
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1 Dzis jest inaczej niz wczoraj Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , 1997 single work essay
— Appears in: Polska - Australia, Dwie Ojczyzny! 1997; (p. 162-166)
1 Nocturno i "Kotłują się za oknami", Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: Polish Kurier , November/December-January no. 114-115 1996-1997; (p. 38)

The poem evokes a windy evening and a sense of loss, embodied by the figure of a busker who sings a 'false' sounding contemporary hit, while the wind outside brings to mind the sounds of an old-fashioned, now vanished, hurdy-gurdy.
1 Weszli do stajenki... i "Weszli do stajenki złodzieje,", Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: Polish Kurier , November/December-January no. 114-115 1996-1997; (p. 38)
1 y separately published work icon Opary Nad Rzeką Dźwiną Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , London : Veritas Foundation Publication Centre , 1991 Z827762 1991 single work novel
2 1 y separately published work icon Drewniane Motyle : Wspomnienia (Wojna, Wygnanie, Osiedlenie) Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , London : Veritas Foundation Publication Centre , 1987 Z1213261 1987 single work autobiography A memoir.
1 Drewniane Motyle (Fragment) Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , 1987 1987 single work extract autobiography
— Appears in: Zielona zima : Antologia poezji i prozy polskiej w Australii 1997; (p. 401-436)

An extract from Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka's autobiography Drewniane motyle [Wooden Butterflies] (1987), describing the author's deportation by Soviet soldiers, along with her two young daughters and elderly parents, from her home village in what was then eastern Poland (now Belarus) to Soviet-controlled Kazakhstan. The extract evokes the misery of the lives of the stranded Polish exiles and indigenous Kazakhs alike in the poverty-stricken Kazakh village of Mironówka, near Żana-Żol. The NKVD (Soviet police) provide the exiles with no work or food or shelter; they struggle to survive in the 'Siberian' winter, and many die, including the author's father.
1 y separately published work icon Odblaski : powieść Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka , London : Polska Fundacja Kulturalna , 1978 Z827733 1978 single work novel Set in Siberia in the nineteenth century.
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