Dr. Kerryn Lee Goldsworthy (born 14 May 1953) is an Australian

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and former academic.

Life and career

Goldsworthy has

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four

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of Australian writing. She has also written many articles, essays and reviews. She has a

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and Ph.D. from the

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. Its main campus in the Adelaide city centre includes many Sa ...

. She taught at the

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from 1981 to 1997 as a tutor and lecturer and has also worked briefly at Deakin,

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and

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Universities, and at the

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, in Austria. She was the editor of the ''

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'' (May 1986 to Dec 1987); decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen." Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the

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and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund. In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to

and turned to freelance writing. She was a judge of the prestigious

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for a year, until she resigned, along with two other judges, over a charter that changed the decision-making powers of the judges. She has also served as a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide where she is a guest teacher in the Graduate Certificate course in Food Writing. She also writes for a number of weblogs. Goldsworthy's political views are

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. She once described herself as "an old fashioned

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." In 2013 Goldsworthy was awarded the

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'Australian Critic of the Year', Australia's major national award for criticism. Her essay, ''The Limit of the World'', won her the 2017 Horne Prize.

Bibliography

Books

* * ''Coast to Coast'', HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd (1 November 1986), * ''Australian Love Stories'',

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(1997), * ''Australian Women's Stories'' (edited by Kerryn Goldsworthy),

, * ''Australian Short Stories'', J.M. Dent & Sons (1986),

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B000J6Z1TK * ''Helen Garner (Australian Writers series)'',

, USA (1 May 1997),

Book reviews

References

External links

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