Glenys Kohnke (4 works by)
Born: Established: 1948 Brisbane ;
Gender: Female
Have consulted with KK/CH re this author. See comments on her works in maintenance notes - this author currently would not download for BAL because of work forms assigned. Have put in BAL comment (private) in case forms change. Whole issue of indig. stories/myths/legends up for discussion? JK 10/5/05

BiographyHistory

Glenys Kohnke moved to Madang, Papua New Guinea while still a child. After studying creative art at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart, Germany in 1969, she returned to Port Moresby.

She travelled extensively and lived in villages throughout Papua New Guinea, painting and collecting legends, after which she published her first book Time Belong Tumbana (1973). Kohnke has held exhibitions of her paintings and sculptures and her work is represented in art collections in Europe, the United States of America, Africa and Australia.

The Literature board of the Australia Council for the Arts awarded her a writers fellowship grant in 1975.

Notes

  • This author is more generally represented with the name in this form: Glenys Köhnke