Alex Skovron: Contents page

Alex Skovron (b.1948) was born in Poland, lived briefly in Israel, and emigrated to Australia in 1958. His family settled in Sydney, where he grew up and completed his studies. From 1972 to 1991 he worked as a book editor for a number of publishers, and was general editor of The Concise Encyclopaedia of Australia (1977–79). He moved to Melbourne in 1979, is married with two children, and works as a freelance editor.
    His poetry has been published widely and four collections have appeared: The Rearrangement (1988), which won the Anne Elder and Mary Gilmore awards, and was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Awards; Sleeve Notes (1992), shortlisted for the Barbara Ramsden Award; Infinite City (1999), shortlisted in the Age Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s Awards; and most recently, The Man and the Map (2003). He has twice been a recipient of an Australia Council writer’s grant (1994 and 2004), and awards include the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry (1983), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award (1995 and 2001), the Manuel Gelman Memorial Prize for Literature (1997), and the Kyneton Literature Festival Poetry Prize (2002). His published work includes short stories, and a prose novella is due for release in 2005.