Record ID:
35741487 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 90724326
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Notes:
  • Growing up Walgett, 1990 t.p. (Cilka Zagar)
  • Her Lightning ridge gems, ©2006 t.p. (Cilka Zagar)
  • Slovenian network in Australia (website), viewed on 30 May 2011 Slovenia's National Day 2009 & NSW and ACT Slovenian Awards 2008 ; Cilka Zagar : NSW-Slovenian Australian Achievement Award for 2007 (One of nine children, born in a tiny village in Slovenia, Cilka left home at 12 to begin high school in Ljubljana. After graduating from teachers college in Celje, she taught for 3 years before leaving Slovenia with her husband in 1963 to come to Australia. She obtained a Bachelor of Education Degree, majoring in Intercultural Studies in Perth and also majored in Justice Studies at another university. For 30 years she worked as a primary school teacher, and as an adult education teacher for a few years with TAFE and Western college. She is an accredited translator and interpreter for Centrelink, local court, health services and the police, and has been an aboriginal liaison officer and has often represented the views of Aborigines and migrants. Cilka has lived in Lightning Ridge since 1968 and besides being an occasional miner, cutter and seller of the local rainbow gem Black Opal, she has also written many books and articles of literature) http://www.glasslovenije.com.au
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)77710
  • 000000745906
  • abv08536896
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX35006
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC
Authentication code:
  • anuc