Dr. Kerryn Lee Goldsworthy (born 14 May 1953) is an Australian freelance writer and former academic.

Life and career

Goldsworthy has edited four anthologies of Australian writing. She has also written many articles, essays and reviews. She has a

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

and Ph.D. from the

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public research university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on N ...

. She taught at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb ...

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

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Universities, and at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria. She was the editor of the ''

Australian Book Review ''Australian Book Review'' is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ''ABR'' is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are 'to ...

'' (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

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1 ...

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

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

. She once described herself as "an old fashioned

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

." In 2013 Goldsworthy was awarded the

Pascall Prize The Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, formerly known as the Pascall Prize and then the Walkley-Pascall Award or Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism, is one of two annual Walkley Arts Journalism prizes awarded by the Walkley Foundation. The p ...

'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 The Horne Prize is an Australian award established by Aēsop and ''The Saturday Paper'' in 2016 for a literary essay of up to 3000 words on Australian life. The prize is valued at $15,000 (Australian) and named in honour of Donald Horne (1921– ...

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),

ASIN Asin Thottumkal (born 26 October 1985), known mononymously as Asin, is a former Indian actress who appeared predominantly in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films. She is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She has received three Filmfare Awards. She ...

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

, USA (1 May 1997),

Book reviews

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