AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
DOMESTIC INCIDENT by Alex Skovron
[Above] Photo of Alex Skovron by Jerry Galea, 2000.
Alex Skovron
About the Poet Alex Skovron
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Alex Skovron was born in Poland, emigrated to Israel with his parents in 1956, and thence in 1958 to Australia. His family settled in Sydney, where he grew up and completed his studies. Since the early 1970s he has worked as a book editor for various publishers in Sydney and Melbourne, and was general editor of The Concise Encyclopaedia of Australia (Horwitz, 1979). The Rearrangement won the Anne Elder and Mary Gilmore awards, and was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Awards; Sleeve Notes was shortlisted for the Barbara Ramsden Award; and Infinite City, his book of 100 ten-line “sonnetinas”, shortlisted in the Age Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s Awards. He was a recipient of an Australia Council writer’s grant for 1994, and has been a winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry (1983), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award (1995), and the Manuel Gelman Memorial Prize for Literature (1997). He has also published short stories, and has completed a novella (as yet unpublished). Alex Skovron now lives in Melbourne with his wife Ruth, their two teenagers, and a cat, and works from home as a freelance editor. A fourth book of poems is in preparation. |
[Above] Photo of Alex Skovron by Jerry Galea, 2000.
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