Antigone Kefala (28 May 1931 – 3 December 2022)[1] was an Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage.
[3] Born in Brăila, Romania in 1931,[4] Kefala and family moved to Greece and then New Zealand after World War II.
Having studied French Literature at Victoria University and obtained a MA, she relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1960.
Her poetry and prose is written in both Greek and English, with Absence: New and Selected Poems reissued in a second edition in 1998.
[7] In 2009, Antigone Kefala: A Writer’s Journey, an anthology of reviews, essays and analytical writing of Kefala's works edited by Professor Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas was published by Owl Publishing.