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Dezsery, Marlene (8 works by) (birth name: Ubelmesser, Maria Magdalene) (a.k.a. Maria Magdalene Anderson) Born: 1925 Sandhofen, Germany Gender: Female Arrived in Australia: 1968 Archives: Search for literary archives for Dezsery, Marlene

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Born in Sandhofen, Germany, in 1925, Maria Magdalene Anderson always wanted to be a writer and teachers at school encouraged her. She won an Arts scholarship to study painting and dress designing at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin but the outbreak of World War II prevented her completing it. She arrived in Australia from Germany in 1968 and adopted the name Marlene. She married Hungarian writer Andras Dezsery and for a time they lived at 181-184 Barton Terrace, North Adelaide. They later sep....

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