Английская Википедия:Andrea Goldsmith (writer)
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Andrea Goldsmith is an Australian writer and novelist, known for her 2002 novel The Prosperous Thief.
Early life and education
Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family.[1] She started learning the piano at the age of 8, and music remains an abiding passion.[1]
Career
Goldsmith initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children suffering from severe communication impairment until becoming a full-time writer in the late 1980s.[2]
From 1987 and through the 1990s she taught creative writing at Deakin University, and Шаблон:As of continues to conduct workshops and mentor new novelists.[3]
She travels widely, and London, in particular, figures prominently in her novels. At the same time, she describes herself as 'a deeply Melbourne person'.[4]
She also writes literary essays on topics as diverse as Oliver Sacks ("Oliver Sacks: Anthropologist of Mind"), nuclear physics, and life-threatening illness ("Chain Reaction") and Jewish Australian identity ("Talmudic Excursions").Шаблон:Cn
While a writer-in-residence at La Trobe University, she edited an anthology written by a group of people with gambling problems, called Calling A Spade A Spade. She conducts workshops and short courses for writers of fiction, and she mentors new novelists.Шаблон:Cn
She has been a guest at all the major literary festivals in Australia, and appeared at the 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival.Шаблон:Cn
Awards
- 1993 – Shortlisted, NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Lysbeth Cohen Memorial Prize Modern InteriorsШаблон:Cn
- 2003 – Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award, for The Prosperous ThiefШаблон:Cn
- 2015 – Winner, Best Writing Award in the Melbourne Prize for Literature, for her 2013 novel The Memory Trap[5][6]
Personal life
Шаблон:As of Goldsmith was living in Clifton Hill, in Melbourne's inner suburbs, in a house she bought with her partner, the poet Dorothy Porter.[7] She continued to live there following Porter's death in 2008.[8]
Selected works
Novels
- Gracious Living (Penguin, 1990)
- Modern Interiors (Penguin, 1991)
- Facing the Music (Penguin, 1994)
- Under the Knife (Penguin, 1998)
- The Prosperous Thief (Allen&Unwin, 2002)[9]
- Reunion (HarperCollins, 2009)[10]
- The Memory Trap (Fourth Estate, 2013)
- Invented Lives (Scribe, 2019)[11]
References
External links
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