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Jenny Pollak Jenny Pollak i(6694510 works by)
Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Visual artist and poet.

Born in Sydney, Jenny Pollak is the daughter of a biochemist and a biologist/artist. Leaving school at seventeen, she moved to London with her parents and sister, and studied etching at the Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing. Returning to Sydney aged eighteen, she attended various technical colleges, studying life drawing, printmaking, and photography.

Among her artistic achievements has been a period as Artist in Residency at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney (Australia Council New Work Grant, 2009).

Jenny Pollak began writing poetry in 2012.

Source: Artist's website (http://www.jennypollak.com/about/).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 highly commended ACU Prize for Poetry for 'Afterwards'.
2023 shortlisted Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — The Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry for 'Christmas Eve (with Oysters)'.
2021 highly commended W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia for 'Lesson'.
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Awards for Works

Flirting in Norwegian 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anabranch : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 2022;
2022 shortlisted The Newcastle Poetry Prize
What Ear Sees, Eyes Can't Say i "I close my eyes.", 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Joy : Poems from the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry 2017; (p. 60-62)
2017 highly commended ACU Prize for Poetry
497 Small Disappointments i "My dear cell follicles,", 2016 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 1999-; Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 2017; (p. 42-43)
2016 winner Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
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