Kate Richards

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Kate Richards is an Australian writer, doctor and medical researcher. She writes and speaks about her experiences with mental illness, and is the author of two books on the subject.

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Early life and education

Richards is a graduate of RMIT University in Melbourne, [1] and Monash University, where she trained as a doctor [2] while battling mental illness in the form of severe depression. [3]

Career

After battling depression for fifteen years, including periods of self-harm and attempted suicide, [4] Richards wrote a detailed account of her personal experiences, both with the illness itself and with the many psychiatrists and other health professionals who treated her. The book, titled Madness: A Memoir, was published by Penguin Books in 2013, [5] and has been widely discussed and positively reviewed by both the literary and the medical communities. [6] [7] In 2014 the book won the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first book by an Australian female writer [8] and the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (non-fiction). [9] [10]

In 2014, Richards' second book. Is There No Place For Me? Making Sense of Madness was published by Penguin Books. [11] This book was shortlisted for the Government of Australia Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award. [12]

In 2019 her first novel, Fusion, was published by Penguin Books. [13]

Richards works as a medical researcher, [14] and also writes and lectures about the writing process and about her experiences with mental illness. [15]

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Bleakly poetic account of a personal struggle for sanity". Tim McGuire, The Australian 23 March 2013
  2. ↑ "Two of us: Kate Richards and Winsome Thomas".Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 2013. Interviews by Konrad Marshal
  3. ↑ "Reading with the AU: Madness: A Memoir - Kate Richards". The AU Review, 23 February 2013 Kassia Byrnes
  4. ↑ "Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards". GP Speak, by Robin Osborne, : 20 August 2013
  5. ↑ "Madness: A memoir" Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2013
  6. ↑ "Stephanie Dowrick urges you to read Kate Richards' brilliant MADNESS" Universal Heart Book Club.
  7. ↑ "Madness: A Memoir" Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine . The Florey Institute.
  8. ↑ "Kibble and Dobbie awards 2014 winners announced ". Booksellers & Publishers.
  9. ↑ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 Winners Announced". Booksellers & Publishers.
  10. ↑ " The week in review". Sydney Review of Books 6 June 2014
  11. ↑ " Kate Richards, beyond the madness". By ROSEMARIE MILSOM, Newcastle Herald 2 May 2014,
  12. ↑ "Commission announces business and literature award shortlist". Australian Human Rights Commission.
  13. ↑ Richards, Kate (2019). Fusion. [Melbourne, Victoria]: Penguin Books. ISBN   9781926428703. OCLC   1083647960.
  14. ↑ "Kristina Olsson wins Kibble literary award for true tale of a lost child". The Guardian.
  15. ↑ "Kate Richards: madness" Kate Richards, Ranjana Srivastava Australian Policy Online 5 January 2015
  16. ↑ "Wild Minds: Writing from the Heart of Madness" by Kate Richards Alternativas: Spring 2018
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