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The Turkish Girl single work   short story   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 The Turkish Girl
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Eleven-year old Fatma Akalay has come from Turkey with her family to start a new life in Melbourne, Australia. As both her mother and father have to work to save the necessary money to bring Fatma's grandparents to join them in Australia, Fatma is obliged to stay home from school to look after her three-year old brother Levant. When Levant becomes lost one day Fatma is reluctant to involve the police fearing that the authorities will discover she does not attend school. Fatma is worried that she has placed the family's future in Australia in jeopardy.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has Turkish characters.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Foreigners David Martin , Adelaide : Rigby , 1981 Z525977 1981 selected work short story Adelaide : Rigby , 1981 pg. 63-71
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Joseph's Coat : An Anthology of Multicultural Writing Peter Skrzynecki (editor), Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1985 Z365989 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1985 pg. 124-131
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Neighbours : Multicultural Writing of the 1980s Ronald Frederick Holt (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z194854 1991 anthology short story poetry prose biography humour This collection of Australian multicultural writing is comprised of 26 short stories and two brief prose pieces written or first published in the 1980s (ix). The general theme is immigrant experience and the work is organized loosely in five thematic sections: Rejections; Transitions; Worlds Between; Generations; Connections. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 pg. 123-130
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Subjects:
  • Urban,
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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