Anna Couani

File Astrálach, eagarthóir agus amharcealaíontóir is ea Anna Couani (1948-). 

Rugadh Anna Couani in Sydney in 1948 agus í ar an bpáiste ba shine de cheathrar clainne de John Couani agus de Stefania Siedlecky, dochtúirí. Ba de shliocht Polannach agus Breatanach a máthair agus ba de shliocht Gréagach a hathair. Rinne sí staidéar ar ailtireacht ag Ollscoil Sydney agus fuair MA i mBéarla a Mhúineadh mar Theanga Neamhdhúchasach ó Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Sydney. Ina saothar go léir tá aird aici ar ghnéithe imeallaithe de shaol na mban. 

Bhí suim aici in ealaín choincheapúil agus rinne sí caidreamh le healaíontóirí agus scríbhneoirí ceannródaíocha eile. Thosaigh sí ag scríobh filíocht phróis i lár na 1970idí agus d’fhoilsigh an chéad chnuasach aici, Italy, in 1977. Tháinig spéis aici i bhfoilsitheoireacht mhionphreasa agus chuir an tsraith leabhar Sea Cruise Books amach anuas go dtí 1989, ag foilsiú filíocht le Couani, Kris Hemensley, Joanne Burns agus eile. Bhí lámh aici i mbunú chraobh Sydney den Poets’ Union ach ba dhóigh léi go raibh sí claonta in aghaidh aigne na mban, agus in 1978 chuidigh leis an Sydney Women Writers Workshop a bhunú. Sna 1980idí d’fhoilsigh sí chnuasaigh eile, leithéidí Were all Women Sex Mad? and other stories (1982), The Train (1983) agus The Harbour Breathes (1989). Tháinig a húrscéal The Western Horizon amach mar shraithscéal san iris HEAT idir 1996 agus 2000. Tugtar gearrfhicsean nó filíocht phrós ar a saothar, ach tá claonadh aici chun na difríochtaí sin a mhaolú.

Saothair
Filíocht
Were all Women Sex-mad? & Other stories. (Melbourne : Rigmarole, 1982) 
The Harbour Breathes. (Sydney & Melbourne: Sea Cruise/Masterthief Enterprises, 1989) 
Small Wonders, Flying Island Press, 2011.
thinking process, Owl Publications, 2017.

Eagarthóireacht
Island in the Sun : An anthology of recent Australian prose le Damien White & Tom Thompson (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) 
Island in the Sun 2: An anthology of recent Australian prose le Damien White (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1980) 
Telling Ways: Australian women's experimental writing le Sneja Gunew (Adelaide : Australian Feminist Studies, 1988)

Sliocht

You show me your child. You’re standing so close to me, whispering. I can feel the hard material of your harsh black suit and your bony elbows underneath it. You are controlled. You look controlled. You’re about to tell me the tragedy. We look at the child with dark eyes and dark hair. I look at your wife standing behind you. She’s blind. This must be the tragedy. I grab your elbow out of pity. The wife and now the child. But you smile and say, No the child :can see – isn’t she beautiful. The child isn’t tragic, just you and me.

You keep talking. You can’t run away from the past. You carry your memories with you always. :This is something you say when you want to see remorse and penitence from me. You want to see me as the escapee with the :head wounds. Scarred by love and still limping. Childless and alone. (Sliocht as “Italy & The Train”)

Nótaí

Naisc sheachtracha
Anna Couani Suíomh Couani
Women Writing: Views & Prospects 1975-1995 Páipéar comhdhála ag Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hAstráile
Homeland, Nostalgia, the Uncanny: The Work of Anna Couani  ó Framing Marginality le Sneja Gunew
Austlit - Couani, Anna
Anna Couani – Rochford Street Review Featured Writer Issue 14

References

Short biography
Couani, Anna

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