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In telling her mother's story, Susan Varga also tells her own. As a tiny baby she barely survived the holocaust, in hiding in a Hungarian village with her sister and mother, Heddy. Neither pain nor the devastation of this time lessened Heddy's will to go on to recreate her life in Australia. (Book cover)
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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Re-Reading Australia: Morris Lurie's and Susan Varga's Forgotten (Hi)stories
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Textus : English Studies in Italy , May vol. 20 no. 2 2007; (p. 389-406) -
Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 1 2004; (p. 21-44) -
Generations of Journeys
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Speaking to Immigrants : Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration 2002; (p. 149-169) -
Richard Freadman and Psychoanalysis
2002
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 239 2002; (p. 6-7) -
'Heddy and I': Relational Life-Writing in Susan Varga's 'Heddy and Me'
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 238 2002; (p. 20-23)
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From Europa's Memoirs
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish News (Life/Style) , 22 July vol. 60 no. 43 1994; (p. 8)
— Review of Mein Leben - eine vergangene Gegenwart : Roman 1991 single work novel ; Heddy and Me 1994 single work biography -
Paperbacks
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 16 July 1994; (p. 19)
— Review of Heddy and Me 1994 single work biography ; Family : A Collection of Short Stories 1994 anthology short story -
Troubled Child of a Holocaust Survivor
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 June 1994; (p. 15)
— Review of Heddy and Me 1994 single work biography -
The Lives that Needed Telling
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 June 1994; (p. 21)
— Review of Heddy and Me 1994 single work biography -
From a Distance
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 162 1994; (p. 20)
— Review of Heddy and Me 1994 single work biography -
Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 1 2004; (p. 21-44) -
Budapest Diaries
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Quarterly , Summer vol. 38 no. 146 1997; -
Fact or Non-fiction : the Writer's Response to History
1996
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , vol. 8 no. 1 1996; (p. 1-10) -
Generations of Journeys
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Speaking to Immigrants : Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration 2002; (p. 149-169) -
Re-Reading Australia: Morris Lurie's and Susan Varga's Forgotten (Hi)stories
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Textus : English Studies in Italy , May vol. 20 no. 2 2007; (p. 389-406)
Awards
- 1995 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction
- 1994 winner The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW Christina Stead Award — Biography.
Last amended 18 Nov 2015 18:25:55
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cHungary,cEastern Europe, Europe,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1935-1945
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