Rijeka: a decadent poet and Italian land claims
‘Posing for his sexual partner as a martyred saint, Gabriele d’Annuncio was titillating himself with the image of a young man tortured...
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Margaret
Walker
Author of historical fiction
Yugoslavia in World War 2
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- Dec 18, 2022
JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP AND ISTRIA
Here is my photograph of the Partisan cenotaph in Tar, Istria, the village my mother was born in. Her family name was Mikatović. They...
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- Nov 15, 2022
ISTARSKA KUHINJA - Istrian Cuisine
Foreword by Milan Rakovac 1982, translated by Margaret Walker Food! – what and when to eat it and how to prepare it, and in Istria that...
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- Jul 19, 2022
How I Met My Birth Mother, Part 2.
When I was born in Sydney in 1960, my grandfather, like many Australians his age, called Yugoslavs Balts. Even though Yugoslavia was...
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- Jul 2, 2022
AUNTIE DULCIE AND THE MIKATOVIĆ MYSTERY
My husband’s Auntie Dulcie was a dedicated family historian. No one joined dots like she did. Whenever we visited her, she would proudly...
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- Jun 11, 2022
ISTRIAN COOKING IN THE 1920’s – from my birth mother’s memoirs.
Istria may have been prized by Venice, France, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, but it was not a wealthy region. Marcus Tanner, in his...
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- May 19, 2022
Can You Write a Novel If You Have Big Feet?
How many women do you know who commence an historical novel based on their shoe size? Or their head circumference? Or their height? When...
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- May 16, 2022
HIJACKING THE TIME MACHINE
'Truth and memory [are] exceedingly fragile,’ writes Deborah Lipstadt in Denying the Holocaust, the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory....
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- May 14, 2022
NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER
Hats off to Slovenian author Goran Vojnović! I have just finished reading his best-selling novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland which he...
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- May 14, 2022
Whatever happened to Slovenian Trieste?
By what convoluted route did an Australian come to write an historical novel about Slovenian Trieste? It’s a long story. Asking my birth...
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