Kate De Goldi (born 1959) is a

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novelist, children's writer and short story writer. Her early work was published under the pseudonym Kate Flannery.

Early life

De Goldi was born in

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in 1959. She is of mixed Irish and Italian ancestry.

Career

De Goldi published her first collection of short stories ''like you, really'' (1994) under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. De Goldi has been a full-time writer since 1997, and contributes to the New Zealand literature sector as a creative writing teacher (1999-2006 at the IIML), a book-related broadcaster and radio commentator, a participant of Writers in Schools, and a chair for literary festivals in New Zealand and internationally. De Goldi is an Arts Foundation Laureate (named in 2001). De Goldi received the 2010 Michael King Fellowship to research and write an article about

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. De Goldi has received both the 2011 Margaret Mahy Award and the 2011 Young Readers' Award

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/ref> She is known for

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and has also won awards for her short story writing, including the

Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award The Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award was a competition for short stories in New Zealand which ran every two years from 1959 to 2003 and every year from 2004 to 2014. The competition had multiple categories, including an essay section until 19 ...

in 1999.

Selected works

Novels

* 1996 – ''Sanctuary'', * 1997 – ''Love, Charlie Mike'', *1999 – ''Closed, Stranger'', * 2008 – ''The 10pm Question'', *2012 – ''The ACB with Honora Lee'', illustrated by Gregory O'Brien, *2015 – ''From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle'', *2022 – ''Eddy, Eddy'',

Picture books

* 2005 - ''Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story'', illustrated by Jacqui Colley, *2005 - ''Uncle Jack'', illustrated by Jacqui Colley, *2008 - ''A Lolly Leopold Story'', illustrated by Jacqui Colley,

Editor with Susan Paris

* 2016 - ''Annual'' (Gecko Press) * 2017 - ''Annual 2'' (Annual Ink)

References

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