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Belgrade, Yugoslavia. At the same time he worked as a journalist in Serbia. Yugoslav communists found his writing politically incorrect and banned him from journalism for life. In 1958 he moved to Paris, France, where he
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Australia there is a widespread obsession with Wongar's biographical credentials to the extent that it eclipses any review of the fictional texts as part of Australian writing. There are a
405:(1977), a magazine which was edited by Sartre and de Beauvoir. When the book appeared in the English edition a year later, it heralded a new genre of creative writing and brought international fame to the author. In Australia, however, Wongar was criticised for his portrayal of
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variety of Wongar's moral indictments ranging from being a white who usurped
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but pretended to be one. Aboriginal writers were finding their own voice and, she claims, there was a strong resistance against such a
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Aleksandar Petrović: DVE POVESTI I JEDNA PRIČA Uvod u delo B. Vongara| Koraci Časopis za književnost, umetnost i kulturu, Kragujevac, Serbia 3 November 2011
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on tribal Aborigines. In 1974, Wongar was asked to send some of the
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