Alan Jefferies, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alan Jefferies

Twentieth century Australian poet and children's author

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Profession: writer, poet, children's writer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Alan Jefferies

  • Alan Jefferies (born 1957) is an Australian poet and children's author currently living in Brisbane.He grew up in Cleveland on the Queensland coast.
  • He published his first poems in 1976 and since then his work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas.
  • He holds degrees in Communication and Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney and for many years worked as a librarian and teacher at the Workers’ Educational Association, Sydney. Between 1982 and 1992 he lived in Coalcliff south of Sydney in a house which was a meeting place for writers, poets, artists and musicians.In 1998 he moved to Hong Kong where he lived for almost ten years. He was one of the initiators of a spoken word event called OutLoud, which takes place on the first Wednesday of each month at the Fringe Club in the Lan Kwai Fong District on Hong Kong Island.
  • In 2002 he co-edited an anthology of work from the readings called Outloud: an anthology of poetry from OutLoud readings. He has published five books of poetry in Australia including Blood Angels: Poems 1976-1999 (Cerberus, 1997). In October 2004 his bilingual children’s book The crocodile who wanted to be famous, based on the real-life crocodile (Pui Pui) that visited Hong Kong, was published and attracted widespread interest from both the Chinese and English press. His most recent poetry book "Seem", is a bilingual edition English/Chinese (translated by Iris Fan Xing), and published in Macao.
  • His work has also been translated into Arabic, Romanian and Uzbec. The poet Ken Bolton has recently written that Jefferies' poems “continue to evince a kind of spiritual, slightly mystical openness or suggestibility in a language that is demotic, cool-ly neutral: epiphany with no signs of struggle or effortfulness, no rhetorical war-dance.”

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