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Andrea Goldsmith | |
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| 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 .
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]
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 [update] 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, life-threatening illness ("Chain Reaction") and Jewish Australian identity ("Talmudic Excursions").[ citation needed ]
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 fiction writers and mentors new novelists.[ citation needed ]
She has been a guest at all the major literary festivals in Australia, and appeared at the 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival.[ citation needed ]
As of 2019 [update] 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]
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