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Alana Valentine (D.O.B. - )

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Val Vallis (1916 - )

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Paul Vander Loos (D.O.B. - )

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Carla Van Raay (1938 - ) Carla van Raay was born in the Catholic south of Holland in 1938 and came to Australia with her parents and family in 1950. At eighteen she entered a convent and stayed for twelve years, during which she endured the hardships of convent life made worse by the madness of the Superior and by the fact that she fell in love with another nun - a much-forbidden thing. At thirty-one she has the courage to leave. Four years later, she enters a life of prostitution. After exploring her sexuality with abandon and flowering as a woman, she grows tired of her career but finds she cannot change. This sets her off on a journey of self-discovery that uncovers childhood abuse: the cause for both her drastic life choices. God's Callgirl becomes a remarkable story of healing from abuse and the finding of a deep inner self.    Photo of Carla Van Raay by photographer unknown, year unknown. Carla Van Raay's publications include: Non-Fiction: God's Callgirl (HarperCollins, 2004) Carla Van Raay can be contacted at Email: carla (át) carlavanraay (dót) (cóm)   Go to Carla Van Raay's website

Vonia Vieira (D.O.B. - )

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Vicki Viidikas (1948 - 1998) Vicki Viidikas born Sydney of an Australian mother and Estonian father, left school at 15 and worked in various occasional jobs. At 16 she began writing for reasons she termed 'therapeutic' and 'confessional', and had her first poem, 'At East Balmain', published when she was 19. As a result of several prolonged visits to India and the East she became interested in Indian life and Hindu religion, an interest that is reflected in her poetry. Indian Ink captures more successfully perhaps than any Australian writer before her the spirit and ambience of the Asian subcontinent. Viidikas's aim in both poetry and prose has been to write about the realities, as she sees them, of such subcultures as those centred on drugs, crime, alternative sexualities, or general non-conformist attitudes. Such subcultures are illustrated in Wrappings, a volume of thirty-one prose pieces. The poems of Condition Red an Knabel are written mainly from experiences of love and sexuality. In her search for authenticity Viidikas has insisted that the spontaneity and immediacy of emotion, however chaotic and disturbed, should be reflected in the poetic form.' Oxford Companion to Australian Literature.    Photo of Vicki Viidikas by photographer unknown, year unknown. Vicki Vidikas's publications include: Poetry: Condition Red, (University of Queensland Press, 1973), Knabel, (Wild and Woolley, 1978); Prose Poems: India Ink, (Hale & Iremonger, 1984); Short Fiction: Wrappings, (Wild and Woolley, 1974).

Cornelius Vleeskins (D.O.B. - ) Insert biographical details.    Photo of Cornelius Vleeskins by Pamela Sidney, 1989. Cornelius Vleeskins publications include: Insert publications.

Brian Vrepont (1882 - 1955)

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