Geraldine Wooller

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Geraldine Wooller
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Born (1941-11-07) 7 November 1941 (age 81)
Perth, Western Australia
Occupation Novelist
EducationBA (Hons) in Italian and Linguistics – Dip Ed in Modern European Languages (Italian and French)
Bachelor of Arts; Master of Arts (Creative Writing)
PhD at University of Western Australia in Creative Writing
Alma materThe University of Western Australia
GenreLiterary Realism
SubjectWomen’s relationships, addiction, friendship and loss
Notable worksSnoogs and the Dandy; The Seamstress; Transgression; Trio, Degree of Madness

Geraldine Wooller (born 7 November 1941) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her novels are predominantly reflective works on the nature of love, friendship, loss and endurance. [1]

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Wooller grew up in Perth, primarily raised by her Scottish mother. She commenced her tertiary education in the 1970s, the era of the second wave of feminism. Her working career has involved the administration of music education, public relations, schools liaison for prospective university students and teaching both foreign languages and English as a second language for adults.

She was encouraged in her early writing and her work commended by the late Elizabeth Jolley. [2] She now writes from her home in Perth and spends extended periods each year in southern Italy where much of her work is set.

Her fifth title, Come out to Play, a collection of short stories was published in 2017. Her latest title, Degree of Madness deals with themes of religiosity, derangement, lesbian love, hetero-sex and family frictions and is set in England, Rome and Australia. It was published by Black Jack Books.

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References

  1. ↑ "Geraldine Wooller" . Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Wooller, G. Transgression. Australia, Sid Harta Publishers, 2011, p. backcover.
  3. ↑ "State Library of Western Australia". Archived from the original on 4 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "Literary Awards | Harmony test". www.literaryawards.com.au.
  5. ↑ "The Seamstress". UWA Publishing.
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