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Dagmar Balcarek Dagmar Balcarek i(A27657 works by) (a.k.a. Dagmar Vozenilkova)
Born: Established: 1931 Brno,
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Czech Republic,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1968
Heritage: Czech
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BiographyHistory

In 1954 Dagmar Balcarek graduated with a degree in Arts (languages and history) from the University of Prague. A speaker of Czech, French, German, Russian, Croatian and Polish, she has been a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Multicultural Writers' Association. She won an award in 1989 from the Fellowship of Australian Writers (South Australia) for the collection of short stories about the women who supported (and were usually victims of) the bushrangers, Women and Bushrangers.

Her work has been read on Radio EBI FM, Adelaide in 1989 and 1990, and she has read at meetings of the Multicultural Writers' Association. In 1987, she and her husband established Yesteryears Publishers in SA.

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Notes

  • Author writes in these languages:ENGLISH

Affiliation Notes

  • Born elsewhere; moved to SA

Awards for Works

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