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Biographie de Norma Hennessy

NORMA B.  HENNESSY is an author, journalist, artist, translator and radio broadcaster based in South Australia.  She and her family permanently moved from the Philippines to Australia in 1997.  She has authored and co-authored several non-fiction-books.  She writes in English and in two Philippine languages - Pilipino (Tagalog) and her 'mother tongue' Ilocano. Her first book 'A Journey in Antipodean Land' published in 2004 was a historical account based on her research about the early Filipino settlers in Australia.
She co-authored a number of Filipino community books in the years that followed.   She published her first Ilocano book in 2022 (Samut-samot iti Tarikayo")- an anthology of stories about historic figures and events. She also published a Tagalog version of the book and both versions have been put out online in podcast format under the title "Mga Kuwentong Pilipino sa Tagalog at Ilocano."   Her two non-fiction English works: "The Last Spirit Child" and "Seekers of Destiny" were simultaneously released in 2022.  She writes a regular column in the Philippine Community Herald Newspaper in Sydney, NSW.  Norma was a free lance correspondent and stringer for print media and radio outfits from 1998 until 2020.
She is also an award-winning artist. Some of her works can be viewed at online art galleries via search engine access. In 2023, she published a trilingual book on classic poetry titled "Timeless" consisting of historical classics that she translated into Tagalog and Ilocano.