Sue Woolfe

Sue Woolfe
Born	(1950-11-15) 15 November 1950 (age 74) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Novelist
Notable awards	1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, winner

Sue Woolfe (born 15 November 1950) is an Australian author, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker.

Biography

Woolfe was raised in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and completed tertiary studies at the University of Sydney and the University of New England. ^[1]

Her first novel, Painted Woman, was runner-up in the ABC Bicentennial Awards. ^[2] Later she adapted the novel for stage and radio. ^[1]

She was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts by the University of Technology Sydney in 2005. ^[3]

Bibliography

• Woolfe, Sue. About Literature.
• Woolfe, Sue (1975). Language in Literature. South Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan. ISBN   978-0-333-17558-3.
• Woolfe, Sue (1976). Briga. South Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan.
• Wolfe, Sue (1989). Painted Woman. North Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Also published in France, 2009
• Kate Grenville and, Sue Woolfe (1993). Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels were Written. North Sydney: Allen and Unwin. ISBN   978-1-86508-613-2.
• Woolfe, Sue (1996). Leaning Towards Infinity : how my mother's apron unfolds into my life . Boston: Faber & Faber. pp. Also published in France, Holland and the UK. Woolfe adapted the novel for the professional stage, and it was produced by TheENsemble, Sydney, in 1998.
• Woolfe, Sue (1999). Wild Minds: Stories Of Outsiders And Dreamers. Milsons Point, N.S.W. ; New York: Random House.
• Woolfe, Sue (2003). The Secret Cure. Sydney: Picador. ISBN   0-330-36436-7.Republished 2009 by University of Western Australia Press.
• Woolfe, Sue (2007). The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks Creativity and Neuroscience. University of Western Australia Press. ISBN   978-1-920694-96-8.
• Woolfe, Sue (2012). The Oldest Song in the World. Sydney: Harper Collins. ISBN   978-0-7322-9499-1.

Awards and nominations

Woolfe won the 1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction for Leaning Towards Infinity, which was shortlisted for the US TipTree Prize, and for the Commonwealth Prize, the winner in the Pacific- Asia region, and listed among the top for novels for final prize. ^[1]

Woolfe received grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, from 1994 to 2015. ^[1]

References

1. "Sue Woolfe". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
2. Smith, Hamilton (7 October 1989). "Portrait of a woman as an artist". The Canberra Times . Vol. 64, no. 17, 222. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 21. Retrieved 2 February 2025– via National Library of Australia.
3. Woolfe, S (15 September 2015), A fictional work : The secret cure and a dissertation : a writer looks at creativity and neuroscience , retrieved 2 February 2025

External links

• Official website
• Anna North, "Sue Woolfe on writing dangerously", 14 November 2003, The University of Sydney.
• "The Secret Cure" - A review in The Age newspaper.