Andrea Goldsmith | |
|---|---|
| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | The Prosperous Thief (2002) |
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 as of 2021 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").
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.
She has been a guest at all the major literary festivals in Australia, and appeared at the 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival.
Awards
- 1993 – Shortlisted, NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Lysbeth Cohen Memorial Prize Modern Interiors
- 2003 – Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award, for The Prosperous Thief
- 2015 – Winner, Best Writing Award in the Melbourne Prize for Literature, for her 2013 novel The Memory Trap[5][6]
Personal life
As of 2019 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
References
- 1 2 "Andrea Goldsmith biography". Andrea Goldsmith. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ↑ Sullivan, Jane (5 April 2019). "Andrea Goldsmith: The joy of fiction is getting behind the characters' masks". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ↑ "Andrea Goldsmith". AustLit. Archived from the original on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ↑ Dooley, Gillian (August 2014). "They All Begin with an Idea: A Conversation with Andrea Goldsmith" (PDF). Writers in Conversation. 1 (2): 13 – via Flinders University archive.
- ↑ "Literature". Melbourne Prize Trust. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ Steger, Jason (11 November 2015). "Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe wins the Melbourne Prize for Literature". The Age. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ Sullivan, Jane (5 April 2019). "Andrea Goldsmith: The joy of fiction is getting behind the characters' masks". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ↑ "Porter dead at 54", Sydney Star Observer, 10 December 2008, archived from the original on 18 December 2008, retrieved 19 December 2008
- ↑ Anderson, Don (November 2002). "The Prosperous Thief by Andrea Goldsmith". Australian Book Review (246). Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ↑ Case, Jo (June 2009). "'Reunion' by Andrea Goldsmith". The Monthly. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ↑ Swinn, Louise (10 May 2019). "Invented Lives review: Andrea Goldsmith on the importance of the past". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 October 2020.