User:Judithbuckrich

Dr Judith Buckrich is a writer/historian living in Melbourne, Australia specialising in urban history and biography. She is Chair of the International PEN Women Writers' Committee and Vice-President of the Melbourne Centre of PEN. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1950, she emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1958. She has returned to Hungary several times and was working for the English language Daily News during the 1989 velvet revolution. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Melbourne University's Cultural Heritage Unit and a Consulting Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. Judith is the author of Collins: Australia's Premier Street, Melbourne's Grand Boulevard: The Story of St Kilda Road, The Long and Perilous Journey: A History of the Port of Melbourne, George Turner: A Life, The Montefiore Homes:150 Years of Care, Lighthouse on the Boulevard: A History of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. She has several entries in the Encyclopedia of Melbourne, including those on Collins Street and St Kilda Road and was one of its two picture researchers. In 2005 she curated an exhibition History: Community: Identity: Showcasing Melbourne's Diversity for the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. In her other writing life she has written her own one woman shows, short stories, feature articles. She is working on a history of Prahran Technical School and a memoir.