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Gina Lennox


Gina Lennox is a Sydney writer, filmmaker and radio producer who has travelled and lived in the Middle East and Africa. She is author of four books: Fire, Snow & Honey:Voices from Kurdistan (short-listed for the NSW Premier General History Award 2002); In Search of Heroes: Stories of Seven Remarkable Men (1998); Struck By Lightning: the Life of Garry Lynch, Father of Anita Cobby, (1996), and People of the Cross, People who live and work in Kings Cross (1993).

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