Biography
Noëlle Janaczewska
is a playwright, poet,
essayist, and the author of
The Book of
Thistles (UWA Publishing, 2017).
Much of her work deals
with history’s gaps and silences, focusing on people, plants, creatures and
events which have been overlooked or marginalised in official records.
Noëlle’s work
has been
produced, broadcast and published locally and
internationally, and in 2014 she
received a prestigious
Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale for her body of work as a dramatist. In
Australia her plays and audio scripts
have won a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Playbox-Asialink
Playwriting Competition, the Griffin Award and nine AWGIE Awards. Noëlle also
presents performance essays—a term she coined to describe a hybrid which mashes
the essay and the monologue with a range of other sources and genres.
Blasted Island—Nauru’s backstory was
part of the Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and in 2015 Noëlle
presented
Dear Scott— her collected letters to the then Minister for
Immigration. Recent productions include
Seoul City Sue for ABC Radio
National and the
Children’s Audio Tour for the National Museum of
Australia and the British Museum’s
Rome: City and Empire exhibition,
both in 2018.
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