C. S. Godshalk

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C. S. Godshalk
Born1942
United States
OccupationWriter

Christina Soccolich Godshalk (born 1942), known mainly by her pen name of C. S. Godshalk, is an American writer. She was born and grew up in New York City and became a journalist before she began writing fiction. [1] After living for nearly twenty years in Singapore and Southeast Asia with her husband and children, she published her debut novel Kalimantaan in 1988 after years of research. [2] She has also published two short stories which were included in annual collections of The Best American Short Stories as well as travel essays. [3]

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Kalimantaan

Kalimantaan is a fictionalized account of the exploits of James Brooke in Sarawak on Borneo. The novel received numerous positive reviews, including in The New York Times , [4] the Los Angeles Times , [5] the Chicago Tribune , [6] and with All Things Considered on National Public Radio. [7] It was reviewed in book review journals and included in the Publishers Weekly list of best books of 1998. [8] It has been translated into Dutch, German, Polish, Spanish and Italian.[ citation needed ]

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  1. ↑ "Biographical Sketches." The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. p.549.
  2. ↑ "Beverly Farms writer Christina Goldshalk produces highly acclaimed first novel". North Shore Magazine. July 23, 1998. Archived from the original on April 20, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ↑ "C. S. Godshalk". Baker & Taylor Author Biographies. January 4, 2000. p. 1. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  4. ↑ Kobak, Annette (April 26, 1998). "Black Weather (review of Kalimantaan)". New York Times. NYC. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  5. ↑ Eder, Richard (April 5, 1998). "Heart of Darkness (review of Kalimantaan)". Los Angeles Times. L.A. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  6. ↑ Upchurch, Michael (April 12, 1998). "A Debut Novel Makes Immediate a Distant Time and Place (review of Kalimantaan)". The Chicago Tribune .
  7. ↑ Cheuse, Alan (March 9, 1998). "Lavish & Episodic 1st Novel (review of Kalimantaan)". NPR . Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  8. ↑ Steinberg, S. (1998). "PW's best books of 1998". Publishers Weekly. 245 (44): 38–51.
  9. ↑ "Los Angeles Times Book Prizes". Writers Write. Archived from the original on April 14, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2025.

Kalimantaan in libraries ( WorldCat catalog)

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