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Drusilla Modjeska Drusilla Modjeska i(A16918 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1971
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2007 Drusilla Modjeska (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 Z1434576 2007 anthology essay (taught in 4 units) Contemporary Australian Writing Charles Sturt University 2009
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2007 Drusilla Modjeska (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 Z1434576 2007 anthology essay (taught in 4 units) Contemporary Australian Writing Charles Sturt University 2010 (Semester 2)
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2007 Drusilla Modjeska (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 Z1434576 2007 anthology essay (taught in 4 units) Contemporary Australian Writing Charles Sturt University 2011 (Semester 2)
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2007 Drusilla Modjeska (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 Z1434576 2007 anthology essay (taught in 4 units) Contemporary Australian Writing Charles Sturt University 2011 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Mountain Drusilla Modjeska , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2012 Z1836166 2012 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

'Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed for ever.' (From the publisher's website.)

Current Issues in Australian Writing University of Queensland 2013 (Semester 2)
y separately published work icon The Mountain Drusilla Modjeska , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2012 Z1836166 2012 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

'Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed for ever.' (From the publisher's website.)

Major Movements In Contemporary Prose University of Sydney 2014 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon The Mountain Drusilla Modjeska , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2012 Z1836166 2012 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

'Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed for ever.' (From the publisher's website.)

Major Movements in Contemporary Prose University of Sydney 2014 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon The Mountain Drusilla Modjeska , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2012 Z1836166 2012 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

'Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed for ever.' (From the publisher's website.)

Major Movements In Contemporary Prose University of Sydney 2015 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon The Mountain Drusilla Modjeska , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2012 Z1836166 2012 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

'Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed for ever.' (From the publisher's website.)

Major Movements In Contemporary Prose University of Sydney 2016 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , Sydney : Macmillan , 1994 Z327201 1994 selected work short story (taught in 3 units) Contemporary Australian Literature Central Queensland University 2014 (Term 1)
y separately published work icon The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , Sydney : Macmillan , 1994 Z327201 1994 selected work short story (taught in 3 units) Contemporary Australian Literature Central Queensland University 2015 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , Sydney : Macmillan , 1994 Z327201 1994 selected work short story (taught in 3 units) Contemporary Australian Literature Central Queensland University 2016 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , 1995 single work prose (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: The Orchard 1995; (p. 249-268)
Contemporary Australian Literature Central Queensland University 2010 (Semester 1)
The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , 1995 single work prose (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: The Orchard 1995; (p. 249-268)
Contemporary Australian Literature Central Queensland University 2012 (Semester 1)
The Orchard Drusilla Modjeska , 1995 single work prose (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: The Orchard 1995; (p. 249-268)
Novel and Memoir Queensland University of Technology 2009 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Poppy Drusilla Modjeska , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1990 Z791794 1990 single work novel (taught in 2 units) Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. When the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and had an apparently happy life until, suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium. (Source: Libraries Australia) Australian Women's Fiction La Trobe University 2011 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon Poppy Drusilla Modjeska , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1990 Z791794 1990 single work novel (taught in 2 units) Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. When the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and had an apparently happy life until, suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium. (Source: Libraries Australia) Australian Women's Fiction La Trobe University 2012 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Stravinsky's Lunch Drusilla Modjeska , Sydney : Picador , 1999 Z892999 1999 single work biography (taught in 1 units) Re-Writing Women University of Newcastle 2011 (Semester 1, Semester 2)
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