Danijela Hliš and her new collection of verse Hideaway serenade (1996)
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Many Slovene migrants in Australia, especially those belonging to the younger generation have come to accept Australia as a second homeland, a lucky and in many ways promised country. Along with Slovene, they use English in their writing. This is true also of Danijela Hliš who has so far published two collections of verse, Whisper (1991) and Hideaway Serenade (1996). She feels at home in Australia, accepting its positive and negative sides, and considers it a second (home)land, like some other Slovene migrant poets living in the land of Oz. Danijela Hliš is probably the first poet to be included in a major secondary school textbook, which brings her to the Australian literary limelight and mainstream.
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Heinemann, a letter to Danijela Hliš, dated 21 April 1997.
Hliš, Danijela, Whisper. Wollongong: Five Islands Press Associates, 1991.
Hliš, Danijela, Hideaway Serenade. Kings Meadows, Tas.: Silvereve Publications, 1996.
Jurak, Mirko, “Slovene Poetry in Australia: From Terra Incognita to Terra Felix”, Acta Neophilologica, XXIX, 1996, pp. 59-67.
Lipa šumi med evkalipti. Ljubljana: SIM, 1990. The anthology includes also Danijela H liš’s poems in Slovene and English.
Maver, Igor, “Slovene Immigrant Literature in Australia: Jože Žohar’s ‘Aurora Australis’”, in The making o f a Pluralist Australia: 1950-1990, eds. W. Senn & G. Capone. Bern: Lang, 1992, pp. 161-168. The author wishes to thank Ms Danijela Hliš for making her texts available in preparing this article.
Simmonds, Melanie, “Danijela Inspired by Surrounding Paradise”, SuncoastNews, Tasmania, December 7, 1995, p. 3.
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