History / Author Interview

Helena Wisniewska Brow: Polish orphans

09:05 am on 4 October 2014

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Helena Wiśniewska Brow is the 2013 recipient of the Adam Prize in Creative Writing.

Her book, Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile (VUP, ISBN: 9780864739681), tells the story of her father, one of the hundreds of exiled Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944.