Guide to the Papers of Vasso Kalamaras
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Manuscript Name | Papers of Vasso Kalamaras |
Manuscript Number | MSS 214 |
Last Updated | November 2018 |
Extent | 1 box |
Location | Academy Library, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Typescripts and books by Vasso Kalamaras, newspaper clippings on her work, reviews and papers |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
This collection mostly contains typescripts and books by Vasso Kalamaras, as well as newspaper clippings on her work, reviews and papers
Date Range of Content
1970-1990
Biographical Note
After completing her high school studies in Athens, Vasso Kalamaras studied painting during 1949 at The School of Fine Arts of the National Metsovion Polytechnic school. She published in Greek before arriving in Australia and continued to publish the Greek literature of Australia overseas during the 1950s in the London periodical Krikos for example. As well as grants to assist her in writing and translating, Kalamaras has received grants to assist in the staging of several of her plays. Settling in Australia, Kalamaras lived on a tobacco farm in Manjimup, Western Australia for many years, before establishing herself in Perth.
Kalamaras studied drama at the National Theatre in Athens during 1960 and 1961, she gained a Graduate Diploma in Education from Curtin University of Technology, a Diploma of Fine Arts from Claremont Technical College, Perth, and an Associateship in Fine Arts from the Western Australia Institute of Technology. For 20 years she was a lecturer in Modern Greek at Perth College of Technical and Further Education (TAFE).
Kalamaras won the Tsakalos Literature Prize for prose (Athens) in 1978 for her travel journal Impressions of a Journey. She has also won a number of prizes in literary competitions organised by Greek community associations in Australia, notably the Hellenism Award in 1992. Kalamaras has been a member of the National Institute of Greek Writers in Athens, the Australian Society of Authors, The Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW), the Poets' Union, The Society of Women Writers (Australia), other writers' associations and a founding member - together with Dame Mary Durack - of International PEN in Perth. She has participated in numerous literary conferences, both in Australia and in Greece.
Kalamaras has had her own programme, 'The Hellenism', with the Hellenic Radio Service, a Greek and English show informing listeners about Greek writers, their works and attributes. Her work is represented in the World Anthology of Short Stories and The World Anthology of Poetry, both published in Athens and many anthologies published in Australia and overseas.
Author record, Vasso Kalamaras, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved 8/11/2018].
Administrative Information
Access and Copying Conditions
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Vasso Kalamaras, Academy Library, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 214, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Provenance
The collection was acquired in 1988, 1989 and 1997
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Australian literature, Australian writers, 20th century literature, plays, playwrights, poetry, poets
Personal Names
Vasso Kalamaras
Occupations
Playwright, writer
Container List
Box 1
Typescripts, books, newspaper clippings, reviews, papers
Typescript of Karagiozis the interpreter
Annotated typescript of Impressions of a journey
Folder 3
Typescript of Karaghiozis the Rich Man. 5 January 1987
Typescript of Karagiozis Milkbarist. 16 March 1987
Photocopy of list of cast, etc. of Karagiozis Strikes It Rich
Photocopy of review ‘Exiles in Residence’ - The Herald, Melbourne, Friday, 22 July, 1988 (Kathy Kizilos)
Photocopy of Spoleto Melbourne Writers’ Festival - 1988 programme
Folder 4
1 signed copy of Bitterness (1983)
2 signed copies of Twenty Two Poems (1977)
2 signed copies of Genesis: Thirty-three Australian Poems [1993]
1 signed copy of Landscape and soul: Greek-Australian poems (1980)
1 signed copy of The Bread Trap (1986)
Folder 5
1 copy of People like cement
Typescript of The Bread Trap
Photocopies of newspaper clippings
- ‘Women in the multicultur’[…]: Vasso Kalamaras. Macwa6news
- ‘Memories’and ‘Windows’. WA Chinese Periodical, 1995 (in Chinese)
- ‘Multicultural Writers Group’
- ‘Home’ and ‘The Truth’
- ‘Writers delight in diversity’. Subiaco Post, February 1-2, 1997
Photocopy of a Certificate of Merit, 15th December 1996
Review of People like cement, by Helen Nickas (La Trobe University)
Invitation to a reading of The Bread Trap by Vasso Kalamaras