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          Ania Walwicz


          Ania Walwicz

          Born1951
          Died29 September, 2020 (aged 68–69)
          OccupationArtist, poet
          Scientific career
          InstitutionsRMIT University

          Ania Walwicz (1951 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist.

          Early life

          Walwicz was born in Swidnica, Poland where she spent her childhood, before migrating to Australia in 1963.

          She attended the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne.

          Style and Influences

          Walwicz was very sensitive to the treatment of performance artists which operate outside the normal practices.

          A true original, a Bohemian rebel, always unafraid to challenge conventional ideas.

        1. Born in Poland six years after WWII, Walwicz emigrated to Australia in and published her first book, Writing, in Her renowned.
        2. Australia's writing community was shocked to hear of the death of Dr Ania Walwicz, writer, poet, performer and teacher, who passed away on 29 September.
        3. A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz.
        4. Having burst into Australian poetry with her 'Polish accented' voice more than thirty years ago, troubling the dominant Anglocentric view of Australian culture.

          5. Her writing tends toward an impressionistic, stream of consciousness exploration of inner states. It also exploits 'appropriative' or 'sampling' techniques of production. Apart from publication in numerous anthologies, journals and several books, her work has been performed by La Mama Theatre, the Sydney Chamber Choir and set to music by