Born: Established: Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Female
Heritage:
Polish
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2016 shortlisted Deborah Cass Prize
- 2010 State Library Victoria Fellowship — Creative Fellowship To research a play that explores friendships, tensions between home and artistic endeavours, and mother–daughter relationships.
Awards for Works
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The Archaeology of a Dream City
London
:
Balestier Press
,
2021
23338052
2021
single work
novel
'Born and raised in Australia, Martha longs to return to Nadwodom, in a country called Czawa, where her parents and family grew up. As she stumbles upon the works of Marion Porter, an Australian photographer who once photographed the countryside in Czawa, Martha’s own journey to her family’s homeland begins to unfurl. There, she meets her cousin, Klara, and the two discover an uncanny relationship in which each sees herself in the other. Born and raised in Nadwodom, Klara helps Martha discover the multi-layered pattern that connects her present world and the history of a city that remains deep in the shadows of their family’s memories. In moving across time and borders, Martha gradually recognizes the source of her yearning and the connections between the dreams and images that haunt her.
'Monica Raszewski’s The Archaeology of a Dream City is a novel that explores the importance of remembering our histories and uncovering what has been lost. It is a story of the need to create, and a story of love that can only be lived when the past has been excavated.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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