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Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden (14 February 1921 – 26 January 2014)Suša, Barbara. 2002. "Pavla Gruden." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 16. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 73. was an Australian poet, translator, and editor of Slovene descent.


Biography

Gruden was born in
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, at the time a town in the
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. During the Second World War she was transported to Germany for forced labor,Kmecl, Matjaž. 1999. "Pavla Gruden." ''Sodobnost'' 38(6/7): 650. and then she worked in Trieste as a secretary and translator for the Allied military administration. Beginning in 1948, she lived and worked as a writer in
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, Australia. She founded the literary magazine ''Svobodni razgovori'' (Free Conversations) in 1982 and served as its editor.Maver, Igor. 2010. "Slovenian Migrant Literature in Australia: An Overview with a Reading of the Work of Jože Žohar." Sonia Mycak and Amit Sarwal, eds. ''Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader'', pp. 173–199. Sydney: Sydney University Press, p. 176. Gruden wrote in both English and her native Slovene. Gruden also translated from Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.Aarons, Mark, 2001. ''War Criminals Welcome: Australia, a Sanctuary for Fugitive War Criminals since 1945''.Melbourne: Black Inc., p. 5. She is known among the Slovene community and in Australian literary circles as a prolific writer of the
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poetic form. She was member of the
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. Gruden has been included into several anthologies, among them ''Antologija slovenskih pesnic'' (The Anthology of Slovene Woman Poets; Založba Tuma, 2004), ''Zbornik avstralskih slovencev'' (Anthology of Australian Slovenes; Slovenian-Australian Literary & Art Circle, 1988), ''Album slovenskih književnikov'' (Album of Slovene Literati; Mladinska Knjiga, 2006), ''Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader'' (University of Sydney, 2010), and ''Fragments from Slovene Literature: An Anthology of Slovene Literature'' (Slovene Writers Association, 2005).


Bibliography

*''Ljubezen pod džakarando''. Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 2002 *''Snubljenje duha''. Ljubljana: Slovenska izseljenska matica, 1994


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gruden, Paula 1921 births 2014 deaths Writers from Ljubljana Slovenian women poets Slovenian poets Slovenian editors Slovenian women editors Australian women poets Australian women editors English-language haiku poets Yugoslav emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian poets 20th-century Australian women writers