- Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith (born 24 March 1950) is an Australian
writer andnovelist .Life
Goldsmith was born in
Melbourne , Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children with severe communication impairment until becoming a full-time writer in the late 1980s. From 1987 has taught creative writing atDeakin University .She travels widely, and London, in particular, figures prominently in her novels. At the same time, she describes herself as 'a deeply Melbourne person'.fact|date=May 2008 She lives with the poet
Dorothy Porter in Melbourne's inner suburbs.Literary career
Andrea Goldsmith has published five novels. Rich in ideas and characterisation, they tell of contemporary life in all its diversity. Narratives of ambition, love, family, art, music and relationships abound in her books.
She also writes literary essays on topics as diverse as Oliver Sacks ('Oliver Sacks: Anthropologist of Mind'), 'The blood-stained imagination', 'Homer and the Holocaust', nuclear physics and life-threatening illness ('Chain Reaction') and Jewish-Australian identity ('Talmudic Excusrsions'). She is a lively and dramatic performer of her work and reads regularly at venues throughout Australia. She was lecturer in creative writing at Deakin University in Melbourne (1995-8) and while 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. As well as teaching, she mentors new novelists.
Awards
Bibliography
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)
*"Reunion" (Forthcoming HarperCollins/4th Estate, 2009).
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