Born: Established: Ukraine ;
Gender:
Female
kk - privated the bio pending correction and response to author. 31/7/11
From: Joan Keating
Sent: Monday, 1 August 2011 10:39 AM
To: Kerry Kilner
Subject: FW: Request re: biography
Importance: High
Hi Kerry
Have you replied to this author?
See your maintenance note on her agent record.
Cheers
Joan
1/8/11Hi Joan
No, I didn’t reply. Just thought I’d obscure the offending text pending the official reply.
Cheers
Kerry
Biography removed per author email 31/7/11 "Marianna Don was born in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. As an eight-year-old schoolgirl she concealed her real age in order to enter a competition for gifted children. Her results in the competition earned her a visit to Israel, and the following year she came to Australia." JK 1/8/11
Dear Marianne Thank you for contacting AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource concerning inaccuracies in your biographical information in AustLit. The source of the biographical information we have is from an anthology called Eat Tongue ; a bilingual anthology / edited by Anna Lopata and Christine McKenzie Fitzroy, Vic. : Victorian Writers' Centre, 1997. As the University of Queensland Library does not hold a copy of this book, I have not been able to sight it myself. I have removed that section of the biography from your AustLit entry. If you would like to send an amended/updated biography I can add this to your AustLit record. The kind of things we try to include are as follows 1. Full name 2. Any other name you may have written under 3. Any other name you may have used 4. Birth name (if different from the above) 5. Exact birth date (day, month, year) and place of birth 6. Cultural heritage (additional to Australian) - we are interested in representing the diverse cultural heritages of Australian writers 7. If not born in Australia, your date of arrival here 8. A paragraph about yourself (up to about 300 words, for preference) 9. A photograph of yourself as a .jpg .png or .gif file. You must hold copyright of this image or otherwise have approval to use it. If you would like to check your full AustLit record, the following login will be valid until 24 August 2011 Username: dw Password: guest30 We are happy to create records for any works by you that fall within our scope guidelines (http://www.austlit.edu.au/about/scopepolicy). However, because of the staff time involved in entering new bibliographical information into AustLit, and the requirement that we undertake research into all of the publications we index, we are only able to commit limited resources to this activity each year. It may therefore be some time before this information is actually added to AustLit. Any bibliographic information you care to provide will be kept on file and will be entered when resources and priorities permit us to undertake that work. Kind regards Joan. 1/8/11/
From: marianna Parry [mailto:mariannaparry@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, 31 July 2011 4:09 PM To: AUSTLIT Info-austlit Subject: Request re: biography Dear Australian Literature Resource I am writing to you about the record of my biography which appears on your database when I put my maiden name "Marianna Don" into the google search (please see the link and the copied text below). This account of my biography is incorrect, it is misleading and somewhat defamatory unfortunately as it suggests that I have concealed my age. I have never concealed my age for any competition and it is unfair to keep an incorrect account of my life on a public database. I would like to request that this version of my biography be taken off your database immediately as it has the potential to negatively affect my professional life. Could you please get back to me with regards to my request as soon as possible. If necessary, I can provide to you proof of my change of name. If you have any formal procedures that need to be followed or if you want to discuss it with me further please call me after hours on (03)9571 3679. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Yours sincerely Marianna Parry http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A3xH# The Australian Literature Resource AGENT DETAILS COMMENT? Don, Marianna (3 works by ) Born: Ukraine Gender: Female Archives: Search for literary archives for Don, Marianna Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Marianna Don was born in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. As an eight-year-old schoolgirl she concealed her real age in order to enter a competition for gifted children. Her results in the competition earned her a visit to Israel, and the following year she came to Australia..... To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. [SHOW MARKED] WORKS BY [ ] All works by [ ] Poetry 3 JK 1/8/11