Sunday Arts Magazine

24 Oct 2021

Dr Judith Buckrich – Author

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Dr Judith Buckrich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1950 and emigrated to Melbourne,
Australia with her parents in 1958. She has a BEd in Drama and Media Studies from Rusden
College (1977) and a PhD from the University of Melbourne (1997). Since 1991 she has
written 14 histories and biographies of Melbourne people and places. She won a 2016
Victorian Community History Award for The Village of Ripponlea and the 2018 Fellowship of
Australian Writers (Victoria) Award for non-fiction for Acland Street: the Grand Lady of St
Kilda. She is working on a history of the Yarra River toward an exhibition and publication at
the end of 2023.
Judith is the author of:
 Melbourne’s Grand Boulevard: The Story of St Kilda Road State Library of Victoria 1996
 The Montefiore Homes:150 Years of Care Melbourne University Press 1998
 George Turner: A Life (the subject of her doctoral dissertation) Melbourne University
Press 1999
 The Long and Perilous Journey: A History of the Port of Melbourne Melbourne Books 2002
 Lighthouse on the Boulevard: A History of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Australian
Scholarly Publishing 2004
 Collins: Australia’s Premier Street Australian Scholarly Publishing 2005
 Design for Living: A History of Prahran Tech Prahran Mechanics Institute Press 2007
 Well Rowed University: Melbourne University Boat Club The First 150 Years MUBC 2009
 The Making of Us: Rusden Drama, Media and Dance 1966-2002 Lauranton Books 2015
 The Village of Ripponlea Lauranton Books 2015 – Winner of the 2016 Victorian History
Prize for a small run publication.
 The Political is Personal: A Twentieth Century Memoir Lauranton Books 2016
 Acland Street: the Grand Lady of St Kilda ATOM 2017 – Winner of the 2018 Fellowship
of Writers (Victoria) award for non-fiction
 The World is One Kilometre: Greville Street, Prahran Prahran Mechanics Institute Press
2019
 Upstream, Against the Current: The Story of Women’s Rowing in Australia Lauranton Books
for Rowing Australia 2020
Since the 1970s Judith has written her own one woman shows, short stories, feature articles
and essays. She has worked as an editor and translator, taught writing at Deakin University,
the Victorian Writers’ Centre and Melbourne University Union and curated exhibitions for
the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Museum of the Port of Melbourne and the Prahran
Mechanics Institute Victorian History Library. Judith has several entries in Remembering
Melbourne 1850-1960 and the Encyclopedia of Melbourne for which she was image researcher. She
was President of the Melbourne Centre of PEN for 15 years and International Chair of the
Women Writers Committee of PEN from 2003 to 2009. She was the President of the
Prahran Mechanics Institute Victorian History Library from 2018 to 2020.

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