The First Journey single work   novel  
  • Author:agent Antigone Kefala http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kefala-antigone
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 The First Journey
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    y separately published work icon The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , Sydney : Wild and Woolley , 1975 Z23483 1975 selected work novel Sydney : Wild and Woolley , 1975 pg. 7-83
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Fiction Antigone Kefala , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2025 29478254 2025 selected work novella

    'The 2022 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the late Antigone Kefala was one of the first writers to open Australian fiction to a diversity of voices. She is known for her nuanced and evocative prose style, which portrays the full gamut of the immigrant experience, the fleeing from war, the resettlement in foreign countries, the difficult negotiation of personal relationships, the hauntings of memory and dream. This collection brings together Kefala’s three early novellas The First Journey, The Boarding House and The Island, which have long been out of print, and her three later novellas, published together as Summer Visit by Giramondo in 2022. It also includes her childhood fable Alexia: A Tale of Two Cultures and ten short stories, previously only published in literary magazines, dating back to the beginnings of her career at the end of the 1950s.' (Publication summary)

         Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2025
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Works about this Work

Conversations with Antigone Kefala Konstandina Dounis , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 234-244)
'We, the Only Witness of Ourselves' : Re-Reading Antigone Kefala's Work Sneja Gunew , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 210-220)

Sneja Gunew argues that Kefala's work has been marginalised by Australian literary criticism. 'The voice that manifest itself 40 years ago was categorized too quickly as "alien", a designation that has haunted Kefala's work thereafter. It is time to relocate her as a cultural pioneer who gave voice for over fifty years to those postwar immigrants who form an integral part of the fabric of Australian culture but whose contributions still require more systematic analysis and mapping, including a mapping in languages other than English.' (218)
Re-deeming the Past : Personal and Cultural Memory in the Work of Antigone Kefala Helen Nickas , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 188-198)
Untitled N. Stender , 2013 extract review (Untitled)
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 76-78)
— Review of The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel
In Journeys Begin Dreams : Antigone Kefala and Ania Walwicz Sneja Gunew , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies 1994; (p. 71-92)
Balkan Light Peter Ward , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: 24 Hours , March 1976; (p. 48)
— Review of The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , 1975 selected work novel ; The Boarding House Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel
Make or Fake? Some Current Fiction Fay Zwicky , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 63 1976; (p. 52-56)
— Review of The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , 1975 selected work novel ; The Boarding House Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The West Midland Underground : Stories Michael Wilding , 1975 selected work short story ; A Kindness Cup Thea Astley , 1974 single work novel ; Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories Murray Bail , 1975 selected work short story
The Image in the Mirror Tim Thorne , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 17 April 1976; (p. 23)
— Review of The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , 1975 selected work novel ; The Boarding House Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel
Untitled Roger Garfitt , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 9 April 1976; (p. 445)
— Review of The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , 1975 selected work novel ; From Another Shore Rudi Krausmann , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Boarding House Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The Short Story Embassy : A Novel Michael Wilding , 1975 single work novel
Such a Vision of the Street Rae Desmond Jones , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , June vol. 12 no. 1 1976; (p. 61-62)
— Review of The First Journey : Two Short Novels Antigone Kefala , 1975 selected work novel ; The Boarding House Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel ; The First Journey Antigone Kefala , 1975 single work novel
In Journeys Begin Dreams : Antigone Kefala and Ania Walwicz Sneja Gunew , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies 1994; (p. 71-92)
The People in Between Sneja Gunew , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia for Women : Travel and Culture 1994; (p. 125-131)
Re-deeming the Past : Personal and Cultural Memory in the Work of Antigone Kefala Helen Nickas , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 188-198)
'We, the Only Witness of Ourselves' : Re-Reading Antigone Kefala's Work Sneja Gunew , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 210-220)

Sneja Gunew argues that Kefala's work has been marginalised by Australian literary criticism. 'The voice that manifest itself 40 years ago was categorized too quickly as "alien", a designation that has haunted Kefala's work thereafter. It is time to relocate her as a cultural pioneer who gave voice for over fifty years to those postwar immigrants who form an integral part of the fabric of Australian culture but whose contributions still require more systematic analysis and mapping, including a mapping in languages other than English.' (218)
Conversations with Antigone Kefala Konstandina Dounis , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 234-244)
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