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Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki was born in 1945 in Germany and came to Australia in 1949. He has published seventeen books of poetry and prose, the most recent being his novel Boys of Summer. He has won several literary prizes including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Short Story Award. In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the Polish government, and in 2002 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his contribution to multicultural literature. His memoir The Sparrow Garden was shortlisted for the National Biography Award. His collection of poetry, Immigrant Chronicle, has been an HSC study text for many years. He is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney.