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Ann Shenfield Ann Shenfield i(A112158 works by)
Born: Established: 1959 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Ann Shenfield works across a variety of media. Her poetry book You Can Get Only So Close On Google Earth won the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and her animated films have received various awards and have screened at numerous festivals, including selection to Berlin Film Festival.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2015 honourable mention Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award for 'On Seeing a Woman Who Resembles Me in a Photo of the Liberation of Ravensbrück'.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon You Can Get Only So Close on Google Earth North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2010 Z1800112 2010 selected work poetry

'In this first collection, Ann Shenfield’s often tentatively articulated thoughts and anecdotes are realized as poems almost in spite of themselves. The little narratives build—and they are narratives rather than lyrical effusions—and they aggregate in effect, expanding to the reader’s attention as though heliotropes responding to the light!' – Kris Hemensley (Publication summary)
2011 winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
2011 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
y separately published work icon Raised Signs 2007 (Manuscript version)x401961 Z1453782 2007 selected work poetry
2007 highly commended Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Australian Poet
You Can Get Only So Close on Google Earth i "and it's not close enough", 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: ArtsACT 2000-2009;
2007 winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Rosemary Dobson Award for an Unpublished Poem by an Australian Poet
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