Zora Cross

Zora Bernice May Cross (18 ga Mayu 1890 - 22 ga Janairu 1964) mawakiyar Australiya ce, marubuciya kuma 'yar jarida.

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Cross a ranar 18 ga Mayu, 1890 a Eagle Farm, Brisbane, ga akawu Ernest William Cross da Mary Louisa Eliza Ann Cross, haifaffiyar Sydney.[1] Cross ta buga kuma an san ta da littattafanta na yau da kullun, littattafan waƙoƙi da baitocin yara kuma ta gaji ƙaunarta ga adabi daga iyayenta biyu. Ta yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar 'Yan Mata ta Ipswich, Makarantar Jama'a ta Burwood, Makarantar Sakandare ta 'Yan Mata ta Sydney sannan kuma Kwalejin Malamai ta Sydney daga 1909 zuwa 1910. Tun tana ƙarama, Cross ta kasance mai bayar da gudummawa sosai ga Ƙungiyar Yara a cikin Jaridar Garin da Ƙasa ta Australia, inda ta jawo hankalin editan Ethel Turner, wanda ya zama babban aboki kuma mai ba da shawara a duk lokacin aikin rubutu na Cross.[2]

Cross ta haɗa aikinta na koyarwa da rubutu da wasan kwaikwayo, gami da rangadin yawon shakatawa tare da Cherry Abraham's Comedy Costume Company da ke Queensland da kuma kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo na JC Williamson.  A ranar 11 ga Maris 1911, ta auri abokin aikinta Stuart Smith amma daga baya ta ƙi zama tare da shi. An raba auren a ranar 10 ga Satumba 1922. A watan Satumba 1914 ta haifi ɗa, Normand (wanda daga baya aka sani da Teddy), a Asibitin Lauriston Private, Mosman, amma babu wani uba da aka saka a cikin takardar shaidar haihuwa. Ta koyar na tsawon shekaru uku sannan ta yi aiki a matsayin 'yar jarida a The Boomerang, sannan kuma a matsayin marubuci mai zaman kansa. 

 Aiki 
A shekarar 1916, Cross ta gabatar da littafinta na farko, kan wani jigo na 'yan asalin ƙasar Aboriginal amma mawallafin ya ƙi buga wannan aikin. A wannan shekarar aka buga wani littafin waƙa, Waƙar Soyayya ta Uwa.

A shekarar 1917, Cross ta buga Waƙoƙin Soyayya da Rai, waɗanda wasu daga cikinsu sun riga sun bayyana a cikin Jaridar Bulletin, wacce ta yi tasiri sosai a al'adu da siyasa ta Australiya har zuwa bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, kuma daga baya aka san ta da wannan waƙa saboda masu kishin ƙasa, masu goyon bayan ma'aikata, da kuma mai goyon bayan jam'iyyar Republican rubutu. Wannan littafin da littafinta na waƙoƙi makamancin haka, The Lilt of Life a shekarar 1918, waɗanda Angus &amp; Robertson suka buga, sun nuna ƙaunarta ga David McKee Wright. Waƙoƙin Soyayya da Rai sun jawo hankalin jama'a saboda abubuwan da ke cikinsa na batsa kuma sun sayar cikin kwana uku.

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