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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for ‘Thistledown Seed’
- 2014 winner Todhunter Literary Award for 'Light in Her Eye'.
Awards for Works
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Thistledown Seed : A Memoir
Blackheath
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Brandl and Schlesinger
,
2022
24457212
2022
single work
autobiography
'Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family’s tragic past made famous in the Oscar-winning movie, Shine. The floating thistledown seed is like the diaspora of the Jewish people who were scattered around the world as a result of the Holocaust. ' (Publication summary)
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