Background
Antigone Kefala was born on March 28, 1935 in Braila, Romania. Kefala and family moved to Greece and then New Zealand after World War II.
Antigone Kefala was born on March 28, 1935 in Braila, Romania. Kefala and family moved to Greece and then New Zealand after World War II.
Having studied French Literature at Victoria University and obtained a MA, she relocated to Australia in 1960.
In New Zealand Antigone has taught English as a second language and worked as a university and arts administrator. Her poetry and prose is written in both Greek and English, with Absence: New and Selected Poems reissued in a second edition in 1998.
She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
In 1959 Antigone married Robert Kerr, but they divorced in 1963. In 1964 she married Usher Weinrauch, but they also divorced in 1976.