Drusilla modjeska biography

Australian writer and editor

Drusilla Modjeska
Born	1946 (age 78–79) London
Occupation(s)	Writer and editor

Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946^{[citation needed]}) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.

Life

Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Papua New Guinea) before arriving in Australia in 1971.^[1] She studied for an undergraduate degree at the Australian National University before completing a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales which was published as Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945 (1981).^{[citation needed]}

Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction.

The best known of her work are Poppy (1990), a fictionalised biography of her mother, and Stravinsky's Lunch (2001), a feminist reappraisal of t