Goldie Goldbloom

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Goldie Goldbloom (born 1964) is an Australian Hasidic novelist, essayist and short story writer. She is an LGBT activist and a former board member of Eshel.

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Early life and education

Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia. She is a graduate of theological seminaries in Australia and the United States, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She is a member of the Lubavitch hasidic community. [1] Goldbloom is the mother of eight children. Her grandmother was the West Australian writer Dorrit Hunt, who was made a Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1988. [2]

Career

Goldbloom began writing fiction seriously in her forties, after the birth of her eight children, and in 2011, received the Simon Blattner Fellowship in Creative Writing and World Literature from Northwestern University, following the publication of her novel, The Paperbark Shoe. [3] She then began teaching at Northwestern University [3] and the University of Chicago. Goldbloom's work has been published in Ploughshares , The Kenyon Review , Prairie Schooner , Narrative, Le Monde and StoryQuarterly , among other places. In 2015, her story "The Pilgrim's Way" was included in Black Inc Book's collection The Best Australian Short Stories 2015, edited by Amanda Lohrey. [4] She was an early contributor to G-dcast, [5] and has written for NPR. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been selected for Keep Your Wives Away From Them (Golden Crown Literary Award, 2011), Inspired Journeys and over a dozen other anthologies.

Her novel The Paperbark Shoe won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Fiction in 2008 [6] and was placed on the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list in 2018. [7] The novel won the Literary Novel of the Year from the ForeWord Magazine (Independent Publishers) in 2011. Goldie received a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award in 2010. [8] In 2011, Goldbloom was the Chicago Reader ’s Jewish Writer of the Year.

In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement". [9] [10] Later the same year, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. [11] [12] [13]

Her novel, Gwen, was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, [14] the Small Press Network's Most Underrated Book Award, [15] and the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal in 2018. [16] [17]

Goldbloom received a Brown Foundation Fellowship at Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, in 2014 and won Hunger Mountain's National Nonfiction Award in the same year. In 2016, the City of Chicago awarded her an Individual Artist Grant and in 2017, Yaddo and Ragdale selected her for artist's residencies.

Her third novel, On Division, [18] was awarded the Association of Jewish Libraries' Book of the Year prize for 2020. [19] It was also chosen as the San Francisco One Bay One Book selection for 2019–20 [20] [21] and the 2020 Prix des Libraires. The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Wingate Prize.

Bibliography

Awards and honors

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  4. 1 2 Lohrey, Amanda, ed. (26 June 2015). The Best Australian Stories 2015. Black Inc Books . Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "VIDEO: Weekly Torah Portion: A Wife for Isaac". Israel365. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  6. 1 2 "Goldie Goldbloom Wins 2011 GLCA New Writers Award". Association of Writers & Writing Programs . 1 March 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
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  8. 1 2 "Winners of the GLCA New Writers Award" (PDF). Great Lakes College Association . Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
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  10. ↑ "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement - VILLA-GILLET // AIR // LES ASSISES INTERNATIONALES DU ROMAN 2012". Villa Gillet. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  11. ↑ National Endowment for the Arts. "Fellowship in Creative Writing" (PDF). Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  12. ↑ "Faculty of the Master of Arts in Writing | Northwestern University School of Professional Studie: School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University". sps.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  13. 1 2 "Meet the Creative Writing Fellows: Golda Goldbloom". National Endowment for the Arts . Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  14. 1 2 Croft, Tehani (14 February 2018). "2017 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement". Aurealis Awards . Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  15. 1 2 Staff (19 October 2018). "Most Underrated Book Award 2018 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing . Retrieved 8 June 2023.
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