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Sonja Yelich (Croatian: Jelić; born 1965) is a New Zealand poet. She is the mother of singer Lorde.
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Sonja Yelich is a poet. Her early poetry featured in AUP Poets 2 (2002) and her first collection, Clung (Auckland University Press, 2004), won the 2005 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
Aug 28, 2015 · Last year, Lorde's father proposed to her mother, poet Sonja Yelich, with a diamond ring at Niagara Falls.
Sonja Yelich was born in Auckland in 1965. Her first collection, Clung , published by Auckland University Press, won the 2005 Best First Book in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She lives in Auckland with her partner & their four children.
Auckland poet Sonja Yelich was included in AUP New Poets 2 (2002) and her first solo collection, Clung (Auckland University Press, 2004), won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for the Best First Book of Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005.
Sonja Yelich was born in Auckland in 1965. She is a first generation New Zealander and lives with her partner and four children in Devonport, Auckland. Her work was published in 2002 by Auckland University Press in the AUP New Poets 2 series which includes the writing of three emerging NZ poets.
