Lee Cataldi

Lee Cataldi

Lee Cataldi (born 1942) is a contemporary Australian poet and linguist.

Biography

Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney during World War II when, owing to her Italian heritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'. [cite web
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title = Lee Cataldi (1942 - )
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accessdate = 2007-03-11 ] As a child she lived in Hobart, moving back to Sydney for university. Cataldi has worked as a teacher and a linguist, on Indigenous Australian languages in Halls Creek, Alice Springs and Balgo. In the late sixties she travelled to Italy and England where she became a socialist, inspired by the 68 May uprising in France.

Cataldi's first book of poems, "Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party", was published in 1978, winning the Anne Elder Memorial Prize in that year. "Women who live on the ground" (1990) received the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award; it was also short-listed for the NWS Literary Prizes. "Race against time" (1998) won the 1999 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. [cite web
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title = 1990 Human Rights Medal and Awards
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accessdate = 2007-03-11 ] In 1998 Cataldi travelled to Madras, India, for an Asialink Literature Residency. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-03-11 ] She currently lives in South Australia.

Bibliography

Poetry
* "Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party" (Wild & Woolley, 1978)
* "Women who live on the ground: Poems, 1978-1988" (Penguin Australia, 1990)
* "Race against time: Poems" (Penguin Australia, 1998)

Non-fiction
* "Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia". Coll. and trans. with Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (Schwartz, 2003) ISBN 0761989927

Criticism
* Spurr, Barry "The poetry of Lee Cataldi" (1994) ISBN 0646177338

External links

* [http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla6/lc.html 6 poems] at Thylazine

References

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