Lidija Cvetkovic (born 1967) is a contemporary

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. Lidija Cvetkovic was born in the former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

and emigrated to Australia with her family in 1980. She earned a BA at the

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and has worked as a teacher and currently as a psychologist. Her writing draws on her Yugoslav heritage and the former country's history in an intensely lyrical manner. Her ''War is Not the Season for Figs'' won the 2003 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2004 Anne Elder Award.

Works

Poetry *''War Is Not The Season For Figs''. (UQP, 2004)

External links

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References

Brisbane Writers Festival
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